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There's this other forum I hang out on in Flickr that revolves around another website called https://www.strobist.com - from a technical standpoint it deals with getting very cool shots using small cheap battery operated flashes instead of 3000lbs of high-end expensive studio lighting. This shot was chosen as the 2007 Strobist Picture of the Year.

But from a car-nut perspective this shot is amazing.

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Link to a larger version: https://www.flickr.com/photos/7211625@N06/462135050/

I love the composition and lighting and it is amazing that he got this look from just putting 2 remotely fired flashes sitting in the driver and passenger seats pointed straight up. Nothing complicated, nothing tricky, just access to a beautiful car and a darkened room. I love it.

Probably Dr E and Sherlock will be the only ones who appreciate the technical details but the shot itself is an absolutely timeless portrait of a Gullwing that anyone would stop and take a second look at if they were flipping through a magazine and saw it.

This guy has some other amazing shots of some beautiful cars on his Flickr stream here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/7211625@N06/
 
jsneddon said:
...Probably Dr E and Sherlock will be the only ones who appreciate the technical details...
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I'll through my name in that hat. I used to shoot pretty regularly and lit all my girlfriend's shoots for a couple years. I have to admit I prefer constant light to flash. Black and white infrared was my fav film.
 
That is a pretty cool photograph.

I carry a selection of Morris slave flashes in my kit. I also have a number of Vivitar 283's and 285's set up with synch cords and/or optical triggers.

I don't know if it is still readily available but there is a wonderful book by Jon Falk on location lighting that covers lots of interesting low buck lighting techniques.
 
Jim,
Some great links in there. I used to experiment a lot with lighting when I was just starting to learn photography. I ended up getting away from the art end while making a living, but may need to start following more of this as I hope to get back into different forms of yet another of my hobbies.
 
Sweet, James. I wish I'd taken more time to be creative with the gullwing we did. All I have is a few available light shots. Now it's long gone from my reach. Mostly just a bunch of "record" photos. Aside from this... and it's a low-res scan.
 
I know of the Strobist website, but confess that I have much to learn about flash photography, my photographic approach is very basic actually and I tend to prefer photowork out in the "field", literally sometimes... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
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One guy I know here in Calgary has access to a warehouse which he uses sometimes for proper studio photography of classic cars, and he is a master of flash photography work.
 
Sherlock.
Great pic! I love the ones of old cars in fields. Interesting and sad at the same time.
 
And Terri,

It's such a sexy photo isn't it... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
Sherlock said:
I know of the Strobist website, but confess that I have much to learn about flash photography, my photographic approach is very basic actually
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Me too for quite a while now on the "very basic" part but that's the beauty of the whole "strobist" thing. It is as basic as it gets. With a digital SLR with a PC sync port you can punch up a lot of shots without having to worry about flash meters and ratios and all that gunk. You just fire off a test, take a peek at the LCD, turn up or down the flash power and bingo - nice shot with little fuss.
 
I've done similar work with my SB800 and D200 slaved wirelessly. Kind of cool to be able to dial in what you want on the flash right on the camera
 
yeah. SB800's rock. But the commander mode is one of the feature cuts to make my D50 so dang cheap.

Gotta sunpack 644 'potato masher' that I fire with a cheap ebay trigger and then i set the SB800 on slave mode - works like a charm.

Life has been a little to crazy to play with the off-camera flash thing lately but here's one of my daughter with the 644 bouncing out of a $25 umbrella on a $30 stand triggered by a $30 ebay wireless trigger:
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LOL - I'd seen that hat before. Too funny. I would just skip all the construction and just bounce the SB800 off my tinfoil hat. Serves two purposes.... Keeps Dr. E from reading my mind and gives a nice fill light for those outdoor portraits.

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grrrrrrr. I wish those voices in my head would tell me to get off my butt and get some work done on the TR.....

'course today it's raining buckets and I've sprung a leak in the roof.... good news: it is in only one place. Bad news: it is dripping on the wife's side of the bed. mebbe I'll just swap with her and put on a poncho tonight.

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*PSST!* JIM! Tack the poncho to the ceiling at the middle of th' bed... angle it "overboard" and aim the resultant diverted drip into a BIG BUCKET.

Problem SOLVED!


...You're getting sleeeepy....
 
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