Iain Browne

Shot this mostly as an exercise the other day. I really like the look of it, but I think I need just a little more light in his eyes. How would you do that without really introducing any shadows or changing the contrast too much? It's just two lights, a 500 watt bounced from the right, and a 250 watt bounced from the left. The windows made for a nice back light.

Looks like I'm a little late, but here's a link to an alternative car crash tutorial that I did YEARS ago -

My experience on the LOW end- I've used very small LED panels (such as these http://www.filmtools.com/li56flpamolp.html) on suction cups mounted to the car, near the rear view mirrors, and gotten ok results. They were dimmed VERY low. Shooting on a T2i, 30mm 1.4 lens I believe. Terribly compressed YouTube image, but it's all I got at hand. I've also used christmas lights plugged right into the car, you can get battery powered ones as well. Litepads also seem very viable, but I don't have enough experience with them to weigh in.