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<blockquote data-quote="Village Idiot" data-source="post: 565561" data-attributes="member: 29446"><p>I've read up and had this discussion on flashes and cars twice in the past week. Are you shooting off camera? </p><p></p><p>The car is basically a mirror. Shooting a bare flash, or even a flash diffused by the umbrella will give you pretty poor results. To use a flash to correctly light a car, you need to bounce it off of something that will reflect on the car's surface, usually something big and white.</p><p></p><p>If you shoot a bare flash, the light just reflects off the surface and you'll be lucky to catch maybe a bit of polarized light if you have your flashes angled correctly. Shooting with a softbox that's not big enough to cover the entired intended are of the car will leave white boxes on the car where it reflects from.</p><p></p><p>You can get some cool shots by doing this, but if you want a car lit by the book, big bounce card type objects will do it for you.</p><p></p><p>If you go to the discussions on the flickr group and search for "car", you'll get a bunch of good threads.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Village Idiot, post: 565561, member: 29446"] I've read up and had this discussion on flashes and cars twice in the past week. Are you shooting off camera? The car is basically a mirror. Shooting a bare flash, or even a flash diffused by the umbrella will give you pretty poor results. To use a flash to correctly light a car, you need to bounce it off of something that will reflect on the car's surface, usually something big and white. If you shoot a bare flash, the light just reflects off the surface and you'll be lucky to catch maybe a bit of polarized light if you have your flashes angled correctly. Shooting with a softbox that's not big enough to cover the entired intended are of the car will leave white boxes on the car where it reflects from. You can get some cool shots by doing this, but if you want a car lit by the book, big bounce card type objects will do it for you. If you go to the discussions on the flickr group and search for "car", you'll get a bunch of good threads. [/QUOTE]
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