Parking lot racers....

[BanditPhotographyNW]

This past weekend there was a national drag race event in Woodburn Or. called Import Face Off that myself and the shop I am part of competed in. We took 1st. in All Motor Sport and 1st. in Forced Induction Sport. I decided to take my lights for the camp out the night before and set up a shoot. So as many of you already know I am new to flash photography. This is the first time I have ever shot with flash outside as well as something as large as a car I have also never shot anything living with flash either so this is all new territory for me. That said I think out of like 200 shots these were pretty good lol. I welcome any and all feedback, thank you

 

[fokker]

One could nitpick, but all in all and considering you're new to using flash, these are pretty good. What lighting setup did you use?

 

[Shipman]

Im also interested in exactly how you set up the lights and what type of lights

 

[BanditPhotographyNW]

This was a 3 light set up using 2 alien bees AB800s and 1 AB1600. for the top light I used a Boom and a large soft box with the AB1600, the side light's/ rear light are the 2 ab800 and the shots with both cars also had 2 speedlights on the ground behind the front tire pointing at the opposing car. I also did a bunch of cloning to get the backgrounds to be clutter and light free. Thank you for the compliments.

 

[BanditPhotographyNW]

oh and the other 2 lights were raw except for the shot with the driver that had a medium soft box as a sidelight.