Let say you had $60,000 worth of lighting gear and just happened to have a $400,000 Lamborghini Aventador sitting around doing nothing, how would you light it to photograph? Not sure? Check out the video for some ideas. Worth noting is the very inexpensive solution that is presented towards the end of the video, in case you didn’t have $60,000 of lighting equipment. I’m still not sure where I would get the Aventador from….
This is a surprising image that I took while eating dinner out at a restaurant last weekend down on College St. in Toronto. I call is surprising because, while I was planning for certain elements, I didn’t count on the level of layers that the final image presented.
My original intention was a very simple, long exposure that would capture the cars’ lights as they passed by on the street. I had also planned to include the light from the lamp post to ground the image and was only hoping for enough residual light to provide some detail to the background store fronts to define the street scene. The surprise for me was how well lit the background ended up being and the additional reflections from the window that I was shooting through that provided some awesome fill images in the shadowy areas of the original composition.
The resulting image included 4 layers of visual elements that add much more depth to the photo than I had originally planned. Sometimes you can count on a little bit of luck to be on your side when you initially take the time to think through a shot.
I know this post is late considering that our trip was back in the early part of November but I need to catch up with all the events over the last few weeks and thought that the Vegas trip was a good place to start.
I’m not going to get into the details of the trip because, as you know, ‘What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’; however, I can show you the slideshow of photos that I took.
This time it was my turn to celebrate a birthday, and guess what? I was the only one with a camera. Sixteen of us hooked up at Milagro Mexican restaurant on Mercer St. for a great meal and a fun evening. If your in the mood for Mexican, it doesn’t get any better, check them out – http://www.milagrorestaurant.com/.
