seeking rig advice please

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went out this morning to try my new rig i made,

few problems im having

  1. lighting
  2. bonuce in the rig
  3. camera settings

the lighting is just too bright it blows everything out, as i have a long shutter speed,

this is my first time at this, so what would be ideal starting point with the settings??

test-1.jpg


any ideas???
 
Stopping down, and an ND filter would help with the overexposure assuming your trying to capture the motion blur of the background ?
 
I think it will depend how fast the car is going, but even at fairly low speeds, 4 secs might be too long to create the motion blur you are looking for. Such a long shutter time will also make and blur caused by the rig moving [I pressume you meant 'bounce' in your first post] more pronounced.

I have never done rig photography before, so guessing, but to give you an idea, I did a shot on the tube last night. My train was stationary, but there was training passing the other way, and even at 1/50sec, I got a lot of motion blur through the window and th other train wasn't going fast, it was just leaving the station we were stationary in. So perhaps try much quicker shutter speeds and see how you get on.

There are some great rig photographers round here, so hopefully you will ge some better advice soon.


edit: I have an exif reader installed on firefox, so as long as it hasn't been striped out saving for web, I can righ tclick on an image and show the exif data.
 
You can pull a bit back from your current image, but a second or so off the exposure, or an ND filter would help no end...

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Yv said:
I think it will depend how fast the car is going, but even at fairly low speeds, 4 secs might be too long to create the motion blur....
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4 secs should be ok (with an ND on), but you'll probably yield decent results with no more than 2 seconds without the filter. Oh, and have the car pushed as there's better control and you won't get any vibration up through the rig from the engine etc going. ;) :thumbs:
 
Simple and cheap solution - shoot at dusk when light is already lower

Are you driving the car? If so recommend getting a friend in volved and pushing it - you will get sharper shots.

Chaz Photos said:
Think you find that was still and photodshoped
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Agreed. Rig shots tend to get better definition on the brake calipers.
 
the example pic definitely looks it a multi story carpark,

which was where i was thinking of going to tonight to have a play,


but the girlfriend just woke up which means i wont be :(


chaz not really 100% understand what you meant,
 
Here's a couple of shots to demonstrate things.

Static...
boom-02.jpg


...and 'moving'. In fact, the cars only moved a few feet, at walking pace.
boom-01.jpg
 
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