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• Referral from June 30, 2014
  

  Elinchrom L. asked:

  Looking for an experienced car photographer to help our friend with his setup please.

  

  John F. replied:

  If you are good at Photoshop you could actually do some very complex lighting with a single strobe. Make sure your camera is locked on a tripod and trigger it remotely. Then you can use the flashes from any angle you like and combine the results in Photoshop. A sort of "light painting" but with strobes and with individual exposures which you can then combine to one image. This means: a) you don't have to worry about light stands being in the frame b) you don't have to worry too much about reflective surfaces. Just make sure you concentrate on a specific zone of the car and that this zone looks amazing, the rest of the frame is unimportant. Of course the sum of all zones will be your image. I wrote a tutorial on this technique last year and called it "zone-lighting" because there is no simple name for it (that I know of). http://obsoquasi.ch/zone-lighting-tutorial/

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