Took some photos of some friend's cars on Saturday. First time using multiple speedlites to light a car (I used two 430EX) so I'm quite pleased with some of them. I would appreciate some critique #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 More here.
Wow dude!! Really like the picys, the lotus looks great. Lightings's really nice but I would've reduced exposure a little on the first one & probably reduced the power of the flash too, to create a bit more atmosphere. The second & thrid shots are ok but agin are a little flat beacuse the eveness of light. 5 and 6 are nice and I think 11 would've ben better wide-open to blur the background. I too like the sort-of fisheye/very wide angle lotus Man I'm sounding really harsh. I really like the images just a few small things 'I' would change but in reality they're only small niggles. 3688, 3695 and 3579 are really nice too.
The colour of the lotus is really photogenic!! Great pics! The B&W M3 shot (#4) has a really good look to it!
You dont sound harsh at all, i appreciate your comments. I really would have preferred to open the shutter and get more ambient light in but the car park wasn't empty and I didn't want other cars in the shot so that's why I decided to try and cut out the background. I've put a completely blacked out version on my website which i think works quite well http://www.devolv.co.uk/ I agree though as I prefer the style of shot that shadowness(I think) posted of the evo earlier. I'm kind of pleased that you picked up on the eveness of the light as that's what I was trying to do. I didn't really know where to start so I just went with symmetrical lighting to start with without much consideration of why. I think if I had more lights and could either throw some highlights at the rear or light the wall behind it they might have stood out a bit more. One of the things I didn't like was that if I moved my speedlites too far away they weren't really powerful enough at 1/1 to do much so I had to move them quite close to the cars for most of the shots so I ended up shooting with my 10-20mm for the whole time. In hindsight I could have taken #11 with my 50mm 1.8 and thrown the background out of focus. Perhaps I'll do that next time. Thanks for your input
