Painting a car with a light source
- Mpho Tolo
- Oct 17, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 20, 2022
The field of photography known as "car photography" is particularly unique and fascinating. One of the main problems is highlighting particular aspects of the car while expressing emotion in a single shot.
Your choice of lighting is crucial in capturing the look, the lines, and the personality of the car. You can get excellent results with the right lighting and photography equipment, careful planning, and a suitable location. I want to highlight a few of the measures I take while utilizing a speedlight to photograph a car.
Finding suitable environments that don't give the impression that the automobile is squeezed in is difficult because of the size of cars. This requires quite a big space. Furthermore, you need light sources to light your subject properly and softly.
For my photos, I used a single Godox V850 Speedlight with an umbrella. I had to use soft lighting in this situation to draw attention to the shape of the car. In addition, depending on the time of day or your location, cars are extremely shiny and reflective, making them challenging to photograph.
You should pay attention to the surroundings around your frame as well if you want to get a beautiful, clear reflection. You may also use polarizing filters to cut down on reflections from the car's shining surfaces. To prevent any form of distracting reflections, it must be spotless. Additionally, any light source instantly creates a hotspot in the paint.
It is a little bit simpler to acquire what you want when a car is immobile. This has the benefit of allowing you to use the multiple-frame approach from a tripod to take a number of shots with different lighting conditions, which you can then combine in post-production.
Using a softbox or umbrella, you should highlight different parts of the car, one part at a time keeping the tripod's fixed position. I take numerous photos from the same perspective in various lighting conditions to prepare data for Photoshop. That final shot is not coming straight from the camera.
Click on the following video to see the fast-time post-production of this car in photoshop:
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