Here is the same Black Series for vossen wheels.. I had a hard time finding the right tones for this shot and I ended up going with a cooler one as I think the shot looks more menacing with the cool tones. The hardest part about this shot other than cleaning up the lightpaint lines were getting a consistent motivational light on the whole picture from the wall to the ground. When I shot this the light was achieved from all different angles and every shot had a different shadow reflection on the wall/ground so I had to smooth them out and make it believable.

Went with a different concept with this one. As you can see :P nothing much to it, pretty straight forward… strobes on the wheels, 4 layers of polarizing, a bit of texturizing and a lot of color correcting.

This was shot for Vossen wheels and was one of the toughest color to truly shoot and show at night.. I always thought blue cars were relatively easy to light but there was something about this blue that had me scratching my head for a good minute. I tried to lightpaint a little bit and I was not able to bring out any color detail on most of the panels and I would just get some decent highlights as usual.

Finally the solution that I fond was a combination of using lightpainting for getting really nice highlights and just using good old fashioned strobes to bring out the color.. I shot this with my D700, Nkon 24-70 F2.8 with a circular polarizer.

This is an ad I shot for MRR Wheels, orginial pic had a blown out sky and I decided instead of dropping in a whole new sky, I blended a soft cloudy sky with the existing one and I thought it came out pretty nicely. The only problem that I ran into while editing was trying to get a decent flare on the lights and I finally thought it came out decent and decided to keep it.

This concept of a cluttered garage/aggressive car was actually inspired by Easton Chang’s old skool silver mustang set, I loved the way the shots were lit relative to all the clutter that was in the garage. The main challenge for this set was just getting a good amount of separation between car and foreground.

This concept of a cluttered garage/aggressive car was actually inspired by Easton Chang’s old skool silver mustang set, I loved the way the shots were lit relative to all the clutter that was in the garage. The main challenge for this set was just getting a good amount of separation between car and foreground.

Client was Vossen wheels, not exactly happy about how the side was lit up but, it had to do considering how much room I had to work with on that side of the car.

Exposure was around 10 seconds, opted to paint with a shoot through umbrella because the softer light gave me more control over the overall color of the car whereas my usual beauty dish gave off much more contrasty lines which is normally ideal for very dark cars.

When I stood on location shooting this shot, I already knew it was going to be a shot I would love. Somewhere during my post workflow, I finally noticed that huge flare in the middle of the roof line and I was pretty disappointment, but I guess I had to use what I had.

This shot is composed of 3 layers; car, background, and wheels. Wanted to do a very subtle light paint where I basically just outline the lines of the car so neither the background nor the car would overpower one another.

This was shot using 2 AB800 heads and about 6 layers. Wanted to make sure the shadows and highlights had some motivation, with that jungle theme. Lights were shot at around 10 ft high almost at full power.

Another anti-rig completed… rather dry composition but I’m happy with the results. Shot with 24-70 F2.8. Hope to produce more dynamic compositions using new technique soon!