So tonight I had the Idea that I wanted to do some light painting. I wanted to do the SBU’s product photography with only one light source… my iPhone! I was planning to use my pocketwizards to hold the shutter open as my iPhone painted all of the features of the SBU. Cool idea huh?! I was sidetracked by another idea (happens a lot to me) that can be summed up with two words… sleek elegance. I wanted simple, powerful, and almost mysterious lighting to create a mood of a road warrior – the SBU. Granted, if the SBU and really anything else road-worthy were going to collide, the SBU would most likely spill it. However, I wanted potential buyers to know that the SBU aint nothin’ to take lightly.
You can see what I mean by sleek elegance:
As you can see, I catered this more towards some sort of flyer or poster. Now all it needs is a graphic designer (Corbin Watkins?) to add some catchy tag other than “more road. less wheel.” unless people think that is cool.
Here is the lighting setup:
As you can guess I am only using two lights (alienbees b800′s with 10 and 20 degree grids) each about 120 degrees off camera axis. I also have draped velvet in the background because that absorbs light the best. I always try to do things right before photoshop… it makes me much happier. Plus photoshop is a bore, the fun part is being behind the camera!
Here are some of the other detail shots (click on the image for the full gallery) I used 4 lights for the following shots, some of which I used my lage softbox:
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