Strobes for Automotive Photography

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outlet15

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Question....

What size strobe would you (any of you) recommend to do a shoot with a car either in a garage or in an urban area at night? Right now I have a Yongnuo 560 III, a make shift softbox with a heat lamp shade attached and a make shift light wand. I need more light, and a strobe seems like the way to go. What would you all say?
 
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Marcel

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outlet15 said:
Question....

What size strobe would you (any of you) recommend to do a shoot with a car either in a garage or in an urban area at night? Right now I have a Yongnuo 560 III, a make shift softbox with a heat lamp shade attached and a make shift light wand. I need more light, and a strobe seems like the way to go. What would you all say?
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Well, if you want more output, you can always use multiple flashes with a remote while the camera is on B.
 
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outlet15

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Marcel said:
Well, if you want more output, you can always use multiple flashes with a remote while the camera is on B.
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If I were to do it that way, what kind of light modifier would you suggest so that I could spill the light on to the car? I'm torn between a shoot through umbrella or a large strip box. I could do 2 speedlights at full power with a modifier on the corners of the car.
 
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singlerosa_RIP

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I'd try to diffuse the flash with an umbrella and try multiple flashes, fired remotely (of course). Here's a shot I took last fall with one SB-800 shot through an umbrella, placed to the left of camera. Took this while I was waiting for my wife, who was going to be ready in "five minutes". It's not at night or in a garage, but you get the idea of diffusing the flash.

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outlet15

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carguy said:
I would use speedlights with no diffuser at all. I shot this playing around a while back. Two Neewer TT560 manual speedlights on 9' stands at camera left / right.

One SB-700 under the car.

I only had the speedlights at about 1/2 power IIRC. Pushing them a bit would have lit the car very well.
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That's not bad. Maybe I will look into getting a couple more speedlights. Thanks.
 
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outlet15

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singlerosa said:
I'd try to diffuse the flash with an umbrella and try multiple flashes, fired remotely (of course). Here's a shot I took last fall with one SB-800 shot through an umbrella, placed to the left of camera. Took this while I was waiting for my wife, who was going to be ready in "five minutes". It's not at night or in a garage, but you get the idea of diffusing the flash.

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Nice shot. I think if you turned it B/W I think would look really sharp. Thanks for the in put
 
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outlet15

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Untitled-1_edited-1.jpg Here something like this maybe. (I hope you don't mind that I played around with it. I have no intention of using this photo for any personal gains.)
 
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