Originally posted by kwb Interesting, how did you do it? Could you share a bit more details?
In the first proof of concept version, was the car at a complete stop and then moved back and the red/blue lights were turned on, all during one exposure, or was it moving with lights on at first and then stopped, or something else?
In the final image, did you take a long exposure for the moving car without flash so it's mostly just red/blue lights without showing the car's body, and short exposure image with flash (or long exposure image of the car at a comple'te stop?) to show the car itself, and composited?
First shot was to see if I could do it all in 1. And with some time I'm sure I could. I had maybe 5 minutes and two tries between calls for service. The first shot was a 20 sec exposure. Had him drive up about 5-10 mph lights on headlights off. Then stop, shut off lights, turn on headlights, then shut them off then walked around the car and triggered my flash by hand in 4 spots.
The final shot was two photos a stationary car shot, 15sec exposure with 4 flash points using one flash. And a long exposure of him driving all the way through the frame with red and blues.
Ideally I'd like to try and capture it in 1 shot with three vehicles, armoured swat truck, a patrol car, and a motorcycle. Will definitely take some choreography. Luckily we used to precision driving
Hoping to also do some action portraits.
Professional standards came to me asking for some advertising campaign photos (some for billboards) for recruitment. Have a few fun ideas and of course I'll do them all on the Q. Because I dont need no big cam...