Was bored last night

[moranphotography]

Was bored last night so went out on the hunt for locations and did this, was disappointed when I got here as I realised I forgot my light painting tool so had to use just flash and timing

MP-.jpg by moranphoto1979, on Flickr

[BeefMasta]

Looks great mate

[DS3WPR]

Awesome pic ..... you have an eye for photography clearly ;-)

[moranphotography]

thanks guys, keeps me busy

[Eaton_Swfc]

Looks great that mate.

[moranphotography]

MP--2.jpg by moranphoto1979, on Flickr

slight re-edit

[BeefMasta]

slight re-edit

Spot the difference.

[moranphotography]

Spot the difference.

lol removed the blue tinge to the headlights and added a bit of clarity (similar to contrast)

[BeefMasta]

lol removed the blue tinge to the headlights and added a bit of clarity (similar to contrast)

The game's no fun if you tell us Phil!

[moranphotography]

sorry thought you were stuck lol

[Bigfeet]

Any chance you would impart how you set-up and settings to us just mere amateurs?

[Jimbob]

Any chance you would impart how you set-up and settings to just mere amateurs?

The settings are............................................... .......Headlights ON, DRL's ON.

JB

[Bigfeet]

The settings are............................................... .......Headlights ON, DRL's ON.

JB

RASPUTIN!! Warm up the frogs....

[FLP]

Very cool picture! But I liked the first one more

[moranphotography]

Any chance you would impart how you set-up and settings to us just mere amateurs?

actual camera settings are quite easy really it's the editing afterwards that is the hard part.

Equipment needed:

Sturdy tripod is essential, can't line the images up (or you can but very difficult) without one.
A camera where you can use manual focus helps
A remote shutter release helps but a timer function works aswell.

Settings:

for this image I went with an aperture of F7.1 because I wanted the car in focus and the background slightly out of focus (if you want it more out of focus or bokeh, then a lower apeture is to be selected).
For shutter speed you want to vary it depending what part of the frame you are concentrating on. I start with the background and make it a little darker.
Then usually make it a bit longer and use the flash gun, at night your probably looking at around 2second exposure so you can get a few flashes popped off.
always review the images, personally I do it after every pic but after a few is ok.
Take loads of pics but concentrating on a certain section of the car, nothing worse than getting home to find you missed a section of the car.

then for editting I am not going to try and go through it but here is a video that I used as a starting point.