Most of us have seen this expression. The old, “I don’t know when we’ll get this part in, and it’s gonna cost you a whole bunch of dough,” look.
There were a few questions about this frame over on our Instagram account. When we walked in, the place looked like this.
My memory was faulty, and I think I answered a question on Instagram about the lighting here, saying it was all small flash. My bad. We had the kitchen sink of lights in there. Profoto lights were the main engines, and then Speedlights for the accents, and the headlights for practicals.
Below, intrepid photog Jon Cospito, back in his handlebar mustache days, affixes an SB-910 Speedlight under the hood.
What you’re looking for here with the small sources are splashes of light, controlled, and specific, generating interest and color. You have to light through the room right to the back wall, so as to define the nature and scope of the place, and let the viewers’ eyes roam about and have an enjoyable stroll through your photo. Let something of interest go black, you are cheating the viewer of information and picture punch. They have to be placed carefully, as, at that time, they were operating in line of sight mode with pre-SB-5000 flashes.
An opposite approach below.
This is one big light source, with the late afternoon sun blasting through a smoky background. Speedlights through a Lastolite 6×6 diffuser panel. Didn’t have to play tic tac toe with lots of hidden lights in this scene.
Shot with a Nikon D810. Fun to ramble about the shop for a day. Hard part is when you use a lot of lights like this, you got to remember to do a thorough check so one of your Speedlights doesn’t stay stashed in somebody’s carburetor.
Highlights of the adventure and BTS video shot by Andrew Tomasino over on our YouTube channel….
More tk….
One time I forgot my speedlight was mounted to a welding robot’s arm in a factory shooting and took two hours at the end of day to figure out from the werk photos and setup notes where I left it 😀 So werk photos and setup notes, drawings can save equipment if in case the photog is little light-headed 😀
Regards,
As an auto mechanic for many years, really related to this shoot. Great stuff!
How do you trigger a speedlight/ProFoto mix?
I loved this shoot, you really know your way around. One question Joe, how much did you underexposed the background in order to bring in the lights, I don’t want to guess but was it 1, 1 1/2 stops? something like that? I’ve tried to do something similar but ended up underexposing a bit more and the contrast is just too much, then I try to do the opposite and I lose that pop. Thanks
My recall on this Jorge is that it was probably about 1.5 stops. I deadened the scene overall, and then brought it back to life selectively.
Very cool! Pretty easy, either using line of sight triggers, or with the radio systems. The Nikon triggers plug into the camera body, and the air remotes for Profoto hot shoe. You can mix them both with the Nikon system and drive each system simultaneously.
this is Damn Amazing
Stunning work. The light, the expression, the message
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Joe, You have a great lighting setup for this place. Thanks for sharing these exclusives.