these Z shots were not planned. the car is in our shop for a bunch of work and right now it in the beginning stage. after rolling it back inside before closing i decided to try something i havent done in a longggg time. light painting.






one of my beat up Z lol. leaving the shop, the fog was so heavy, I thought it looked pretty good with the new LED street lights they put up that i had to pull over and take a shot for ***** and giggles...


and one from Brooklyn the other day as well...

 

 

I like the shots of both Zs.

 

love the shots of the 370

 

cool bro but what is light painting? and how do you do it?

 

very similar to how people write their names with the LED lights using a slow shutter..

basically what i did to achieve those first two shots was, shut off all of the lights inside the shop to make it as dark as possible. then used one of the LED light wands that techs use to work on cars, and basically just walked around certain spots i wanted illuminated (while using about a 15 second shutter). the first pic is about 4 photos i manually merged together in certain spots to get the car illuminated. the second pic i managed to get in one shot, so i didnt need to combine any images together...

 

mmmm interesting, thanks

 

so how did you not show up in the pic? was it just because it was too dark?

and did u turn off and on the lights or keep it on the whole time?

thanks, i want to try something like this!

 

MOAR!

 

amazing!

 

Cool shots, but you need to calibrate your monitor. The PS work was immediately apparent on my end (calibrated with Spyder3Pro).



Here is the same picture with the exposure boosted to emphasize what I'm talking about. The same applies to the first picture, too.

 

This kinda of light painting is generally done with a single speedlite. Set the camera for a long exposure and turn/block off ambient light that you don't want. Walk around the subject and fire the speedlite to your likings.

 

Wow I love that first shot!!!

 

i do need to calibrate my monitor. i got a new LED 21'' Samsung monitor over the summer but havent really used it much, since i put photography on the back burner for a bit.

problem is, i dont know how to do it lol

i miss the old glass screens that the picture always looked the same at all angles. now its hard with these flat screens bc depending on the angle you are on the contrast changes. actually one of the reasons why i havent done much new stuff bc editing is a pain in the *** ya know.

thanks for the heads up though. ill look into calibrating it

 

It's very easy. Pick up a calibration puck and let it do it all the work for yah.

I love my Spyder3Pro. I recalibrate my monitor every month. It can also be used on multiple monitors, which is a big plus.

 

im going to look into that now actually... thanks

 

Great pics