Flash guns and cars

[big dave hull]

Ive Had some flash guns in my kit for a while now, 2 stands, remote and recievers and recently had a mate ask me to do
Him some photos as his car is modified, how can i set up to avoid glare and **** i use a polarizing filter?? Id just like a general idea of where to start to get the best from it?

Cheers

 

[nano]

What you can do is assuming you are on a tripod you use a circ. pl to cut the glare from one panel, take a shot, turn the circ. pl to cut glare from another panel, take a shot and so on until you have done all sides. Patch it together in potatoshop and you can control how much glare and where you want it.

Bit time consuming though, you can also hide the specular highlights (spots from the reflected flashes) in wheel arches and such, makes cloning them out a bit easier

 

[big dave hull]

Ah right thats a good idea il try that but it will take a fairly long time wont it and i arnt that great a photshop

 

[John Mc]

Could use reflectors to evenly bounce the flashes off? ive never tried shooting cars, but works with product shots on black acrylic ive done

(i use a3 white card as its cheap,you might want to go bigger if you try this)

 

[frenchman]

Have you had a look at light painting? Do you have any modifiers for you flashes? Softboxes or umbrellas would work well to diffuse the light.