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Exterior car lighting


Anders Ledin

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Hi, would really appreciate some advice here. How would you go about lighting this scene? Looks like there is some high, long narrow bounce that create the light-strip on the upper part, with a strip of blacks underneath, but I am in no way sure. Would I need separate lighting for the rims, and If the bounce I need would have to be very big, is it possible to get away with some big soft lights?

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1 hour ago, Anders Ledin said:

Hi, would really appreciate some advice here. How would you go about lighting this scene? Looks like there is some high, long narrow bounce that create the light-strip on the upper part, with a strip of blacks underneath, but I am in no way sure. Would I need separate lighting for the rims, and If the bounce I need would have to be very big, is it possible to get away with some big soft lights?

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Hi Anders and welcome to the forum. 

Will you need to light just the car from a wide shot or the car and the interior of the car with people in it?

Thanks!!

Have a lovely evening!

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That shot was just natural light, the hubcaps are reflecting the blue sky opposite the sunset. A car is a big mirror, even if you could drive a 20'x20' soft light diffusion frame alongside the car, it would just reflect as a medium-sized rectangle in half the car length.  This is why so many car commercials are shot near dusk to take advantage of a big soft sky reflecting over the car. Otherwise, on stage, you'd be talking about a huge diffusion frame over the car to get that effect.

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A friend of mine went to the ASC master class and they did a whole segment on exterior car lighting. She said the trick was to shoot right after the sun went down / is going down so the sky is still bright enough to reflect in the car but you avoid the hotspot of the sun.

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