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after seeing tangcla's photos on here and other forums i wanted to give it a shot, to paint light over a car using a softbox.

i picked up a 60cmx40cm double diffuser softbox off ebay for $40, off ebay i also got an 80 L.E.D. camping light for $15
here are the result from my first attempt at painting light.
(they are cropped a fair bit as i got the face of the softbox in a few of the photos, i will practise my technique more)

had nothing better to do tonight, i work nightshift so i cant sleep. i was going to wait till thursday but instead i cleaned the xr8 off tonight and got a picture of it, this was the first picture i took of it, i decided this turned out better than i thought so i went home.

same technique



only resized in photoshop, other than that nothing has been done to it.

i think the shots in the OP could do with a bit of brightening up. the last shot though suits the dark, subdued mood. looks fantastic. well done.

The LED lights are giving you a blue light which is might be ok on a blue car but will cause colour cast on other colours...

i forgot to mention that, i am planning on changing the leds over to clear/white ones.

Good work but to me they all seem under exposed, especially the last.

Cheers
Adam

how is this?

in lightroom i adjusted the whitebalance, bumped up the exposure a little bit and sharpened the image.

in photoshop i deleted the backround.

hey i went out again last night for some more trial shots using the lightbox, i let a bit more light into the camera, and adjsuted the white balance setting on the camera using a custom setting to suit the led light. all was going well and i was making some progress, then my battery went flat i forgot all about charging it so i only got 6 photos done and no where near to progress i wanted. but here is my picture from tonight straight off the camera.



i will see if i can improve it in lightbox and photoshop, but i am fairly happy with it.

i also got video footage to show people how i did it, everyone on other forums is interested in how to take these photos so i will show them, althought the video is being a pain to upload so that may have to wait.

Dude u've come a long way in such a short time! Great stuff... keep em coming..

What type of LED light and where did you buy it from?

Maybe post the video on YOUTUBE or something. I would be keen.

cheers, it is a working progress. just wished my battery didnt go flat so i could of tried out a few more things.

the light was advertised as a UFO camping light 60led (i think i wrote it had 80 led's i was wrong)

here is a picture of it in the lightbox


lol the way ive stuck it in ive blocked off a few leds but it doesnt really effect it (the latest one i was packing up and i realised i only had the light on the setting of 40leds, one more click to what i thought was off and it bumped up to 60leds and got brighter. so i cant wait to go out again as there is more i can improve on.
this is only one style of photos, at the moment this one is really fun to do and it great to see how they turn out once i get home and put them on the computer. i still want to put some focus into other sorts of lighting set ups and daytime photos.

The most recent image works quite well imo, I think the key, for me anyway, is the background, the background in this picture really adds to the subject. I would be interested in seeing the final PP'd version.

That looks really good. you have come a long way in a short time. Keep it up, I look forward to seeing more of your work

Big improvement... looking good. Good work and would love to see the vid!

Definately showing improvement. That last image is really good. Have you had a problem with footprints showing up in any of your images yet, or are you far away enough to not have that problem?

sorry for digging this up, but i finally uploaded the video.

from looking at the video i really need to put more light on the roof of the car, something that i thought i was doing.