Continuous Light

Building a Custom Car Photography Rig (And What I Learned Studying This Studio Setup)
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Building a Custom Car Photography Rig (And What I Learned Studying This Studio Setup)

Car photography has always been the discipline that humbles studio photographers. I’ve lit faces, fabric, glass, and food, and none of them prepared me for the first time I tried to light a vehicle. Every surface is a mirror. Every light source you place shows up twice, once where you want it and once where you absolutely don’t. When a client brought me a vintage Porsche two years ago, I spent three hours chasing a reflection across the hood before I got a single frame worth keeping.

Mixing Strobes and Continuous Light: How to Make Two Completely Different Light Sources Work Together
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Mixing Strobes and Continuous Light: How to Make Two Completely Different Light Sources Work Together

There is a specific kind of portrait shot that stops people mid-scroll. It has depth, warmth, a shaft of light cutting through atmosphere. It looks like it was lit by someone who understood both cinema and photography at the same time. For years, I chased that look by piling on more strobes, more modifiers, more complexity. The answer, it turns out, was simpler and more disruptive: stop using only one type of light source.