2 White Cars: Light Painting

crayzphotography

Hey, I hope this is the right place to post these. The refridgerator on wheels (as I call it) is my brothers and the Altima is mine. Both are were shot at night on my favorite closed road and light painted with either a flashlight or an iphone :wink

Hope you like them, thanks for looking!

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IPClark

Fantastic idea. They look great.

What's your EXIF on these?

Mohamed.Ghuloom

I liked the first one and the zigzag light on the body. Share EXIF data and maybe some tutorial

crayzphotography

<TABLE class=photoInfo><TBODY><TR id=Camera><TH>*First shot

</TH><TD></TD></TR><TR id=ExposureTime><TH>Exposure Time</TH><TD>51s (51/1)</TD></TR><TR id=Aperture><TH>Aperture</TH><TD>f/6.7</TD></TR><TR id=ISO><TH>ISO</TH><TD>400</TD></TR><TR id=FocalLength><TH>Focal Length</TH><TD>18mm (27mm in 35mm)</TD></TR><TR id=originalSize><TH>Photo Dimensions</TH><TD>4368 x 2928
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Thanks for the comments!

Tutorial.

These are all shot at night on a road away from other cars headlights. Just pick a nice angle and use a flashlight to focus. With my cheapo remote I open up the shutter and start painting a way. After a few tries you get an idea of how the light is hitting certain things. The black wheels on the scion needed to be blasted with light while the white car just took a few seconds to look right. It takes a lot of expiramenting but it is fun to see how your images progress over the night. You learn to paint things like the road, or some bushed around it all in about the time to get a good exposure of the sky. The flashlight I use is very warm compared to the iPhone (which is all I had with me for the Altima shots)

Aperture is set randomly. I wanted enough of the road and car in focus and plenty of time to paint things so I wouldnt shoot wide open. f/5.6-8 seem to work nicely.

Exposure time really doesnt matter with these. It has more of an effect on the sky than the car. You need enough time to paint things how you want and as long as you keep moving and dont let the light hit you or shine directly into the camera they will come out.

ISO is 400 depending on the the light. The iphone is not as bright as my flashlight so I had to paint a little longer. I could reduce the ISO for the flashlight shots, but have to paint a little longer.


Thanks again! I hope my tutorial was helpful, if not feel free to ask for more.
Josh
a few more...<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/thumb.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >
The second one shows the wheels getting a little more attention.

00SS

those came out very nice.. - what did you in post to them (if anything)?

thanks for the tips, I have tried something similar with my bikes.. but none
of them came out as i'd had hoped. time for another re-shoot, thanks for the motivation.

crayzphotography

not much in post, a little white balance correction and that is about it. These come out really good straight out of camera after you get the light painting right by chimping off the LCD. Thanks for the comments and I think the bike shots will look great. Try different types of lights and you can get some neat effects. The squiggly lines of light are from the flashlight being close enough to reflect into the camera and I think it adds to the photo. Good luck and I am glad to inspire (this site has inspired me to try a lot of things)

thanks,
Josh

Mohamed.Ghuloom

Thanks for the tutorial dear.. I might try this soon...