When under a 15’ x 30’ soft box, just how exactly do you deal with the reflections? The answer depends on how much money you have for the shoot! In this case, it was a whopping 3 figure budget, so the answer is – you make do! This means you have to deal with some unwanted reflections and make compromises with how you place your light. You can take multiple exposures and composite them together (which I may do one day), but that’s more time consuming than my life currently allows me to do. In the end, I just tried to be aware of the reflections and embraced the good ones and erase the bad ones to end up with a final image that I enjoy even if it still isn’t quite perfect or up there with car photography legends Clint Clemens and Tim Wallace.
Here’s a behind the scenes shot from the studio.
This shot was taken with my Canon 5D Mark II and the new Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens mounted to a tripod and remote controlled via a Lenovo W701ds notebook. I shot the primary exposure using ISO 320 and f/13 for 0.8 sec @ 110mm, but I also had a 4 second and 0.5 sec exposures that I let Photomatix blend together so I could better capture the blue color of the car (a single image felt more black and dull). I processed the background using a StuckInCustoms.com texture (as discussed in my Trey Ratcliff interview) and used Imagenomic Noiseware to reduce the noise. Final processing was with Nik Software’s Color Efex and Sharpener Pro.
I hope to have time to work on this shot again to get the results I have in my mind, but in the meantime I’m enjoying a 24x43” print of this in my studio almost as much as I enjoy the car!
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