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How a Master Photographer Produced These Beautiful Audi Shots in One Hour, Inside a Crappy Garage
You don't need an expensive studio, just talent and know-how
Product photography is one of the more technically challenging subsets of shooting, requiring a masterful understanding of lighting. And within product photography, automotive photography is even beastlier, because the product in question is huge and not exactly easy to reposition. Still, it's safe to say that pro shooter Scott Kelby has got automotive photography down:
Enter a caption (optional)In an earlier post we showed you the ginormous set-ups required to shoot cars. At a minimum it seems you need an infinity wall, huge diffusers and plenty of power, as shown below:
Enter a caption (optional)So we were amazed to see that Kelby, who learned automotive photography through the teachings of UK-based shooter Tim Wallace, produced some stunning shots of an Audi R8 in less-than-ideal conditions—and in just sixty minutes. First off, check out the shots:
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Enter a caption (optional)Kelby pulled this off with no studio and almost no time, being given just one hour to shoot the car in the owner's average-looking suburban garage. See how he did it, and what equipment he used, in this behind-the-scenes video:
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Really great and well crafted photos. The softboxes almost make a render-like quality highlight.
That said, I feel like "inside a crappy garage" is pretty irrelevant once you're $10k deep in camera & lighting gear.
I'm not going to comment either way on whether or not the photos were really done in situ or in post or what combination thereof.
But I will say that is not a 'crappy garage' by any stretch, unless your standard is Racing Team Pure White German Engineered Tech Centre.
I'd take that garage anyday.
My thoughts exactly! Then I saw the pics of the garage, I was like OOOOHHH! Not an actual crappy garage!
Really great and well crafted photos. The softboxes almost make a render-like quality highlight.
Not to mention, he has aids.
totally false premise! Been shooting cars, humans, product all my life! There's enough ambient light in that location to show all background, especially lighting with just a few shimaras..... These photos have MASSIVE Photoshopping done to them... Whomever wrote this article, either knows this, or was mislead, no - outright lied to by the photographer!
This is nice car photography for tight details on black. It's a good technique for catalog gigs, with no context of the environment. Scott's a great teacher and it's cool to see him venturing around to different subject matter.
That "crappy garage" it´s bigger than my house
Google Strobist. This isn't magic. By any means.
Upon watching the video again, I'm convinced the photographer is full of it... and full of himself! Outright lier, To make this true, new timeline... shooting 10 minutes... Photoshop 50 minutes... there, fixed!