Saxo - poor lighting :0(

[Frevo]

Originally Posted by Simo

My main target was the sunset sky... I was trying to learn how to light the foreground as well as capture the sky.

I concluded that without a strong flash, or additional lighting, it wasn't going to happen!

So... if anyne knows a trick so I can light the foreground and get the cool sky, please let me know

Normally you would use a fill in flash, but that's kinda hard with cars (reflection). The easiest solution is... shadow/highlights in Photoshop

[Frevo]

Originally Posted by Jungle_Jim

simo for future reference to get a light foreground and the sunset at the right levels there are two ways of doing it. on automatic mode with flash off point you camera at the sky and remeber the light reading (both the apperture and the exposure time), now switch it to manual mode and imput the same readings but this time turn your flash on, this way it will still be metered for the sky but give you light in the foreground. if the flash is too bright adjust the power of it with the flash compensation dial, you will probably want it one or two stops down. and by using fill in flash you should get some good results, a flashgun would be better than the pop up flash.

the second way is to take to pics in exactly the same place one metered for the car, the other for the sky and then chop the two together.

hope that helps

Ever tried a flash when taking a pic of a car? Gets you a nice reflection, even with my external flash + omnibounce.

I did a car shoot yesterday. Will post some examples when I've finished the pics (which will probably be next week )