How to SHOOT + EDIT CAR PHOTOS! - Light Painting Technique

I know there's someone like me who names their files after client names Why is there always an underscore in everything Why does the client finalize the project Just like when you finish your final project and then an error appears Or do you get a client revision and you think there will be only two rounds of revision Then you get more revisions and you think they are good clients so I'll do another round And then it finally ends and it might crash and stop working Then it becomes final final And then you start uploading the final jpeg for sand health We have all done it What's going on friends My name is Chris Yes it is In this episode we're going to talk about light painting One of my favorite techniques for car photography is using natural light Then I will show you How to create such an image Alright Then before we get to the steps what is light painting Actually when you set your camera on a tripod And go for long exposure And in that frame the light sources are placed Then you can paint with lig So people usually illuminate an objec They do this to create art from that light source For special car photography We highlight many parts of the car Use this light source And then we will put those pictures together Let's talk about going for light painting You don't need much at all You need a tripod A camera body The third one is a lens The next is some kind of light source And in our case we had the light well on that G-wagon But you don't need a selfie stic This was just an extra piece So the work became a bit easier Before you start shooting I will give you a tip for shooting at night If you want to shoot during the day Then you will have to use some kind of ND But I have always seen that it does not lead to good results It looks really good at night Okay now the fun part We need to actually go there and start shooting Then you'll need a location and a good running car Any car can be driven but it's not necessarily a good one It could also be a bad car but the photo might still turn out good In this example we have an ice cream truck in front of an Arctic White G We will use the wagon that's really it It's a unique combination Now you need to find a composition that suits your taste And then people will have to put it on a tripod And be careful that you tripod is Do not move at all And you will think "Oh poet I can do that " Don't move it at all An ice garage is one side and a car is on the other side And we are going to take our first base pot In this example we have the headlight and Ice garage is exposed And this was going to be our base level Now for camera security If you are an athlete runner Then maybe five seconds or maybe two seconds It will be fine for you You can just walk through the frame But I'm a bit slow We are going to take many photos You are trying to do it the hard way It shines on different parts of the car from its light source Highlighting So my second photo For my second layer I am going to the car We can start moving our frame so that the frame Highlight the rim light a bit more And start lighting up this car Then what you are about to do We want to illuminate the different parts of the car with this light source Capture a few more frames for highlighting I always highlight the wheels You can see the wheels up close You must create a circular motion by standing on the wheel Highlight the back part of the Homy series We have a complete frame We do this where we do not expose it to a light source We just said break so that the snow or your place doesn't get a red break We also create a frame where we take the light source They place it right under the car so that the bottom part can be illuminated And then I saw some small parts through the frame like a jo I want to light up all those rooms if there's a vaccine I can see those shots and then organize them so tha Later I can bring those pictures into Photoshop So it starts with this picture where we took our base We set up a shot for the ice grind in the headlights and background We start looking at those pictures We have our first exposure This is really feeling very good As you can see there is a light burning in the sky I will show you how to mass it later And then there's our brake light behind us They really look very good I wanted to show you an example When the light was actually licking that part of the car The one we are trying to highlig You will not want to use this shavi As you can see here The light is actually sucking the rubber off the wheel And we really can't use it later Because the exposure will not be the same I apologize to my neighbor He made a decision This is the same as when I have dinner at 4 PM on Wednesday It feels like I'm doing this Oh this is my job I watched my neighbor's YouTube video during the night I relieve tension by vacuuming There is an exposure under the car I like using it because it makes the car look very good As you can see here This car has a single wheel in front and there is some softness around the tire and rim We could not make the car We were told not to do it and it's obvious that it's very cold outside Then it's one of the things you'll have to live with But I just want to say that it's Moody Here is another picture of the car's front lighting I think it's looking really good And this is our photo Then I'm going to the light room I have selected and arranged my favorite photos And I am going to create a new folder I'm going to the final Selects And we are going to the image format We will select the original so you get the actual raw files So that you can stack them later It's just my process again I like to work in the same way There are probably many different ways to do it This is the way that feels right to me Follow whatever process works for you in Photoshop for stacking later I am going to start my sequence with a custom name sequence Then we have a Mercedes G-Wagon Okay Photoshop is expensive We are going into the file We are going into the script We are going to load the files into the stack This is the method by which you will be able to mask an image according to your desire You are about to browse the folder you just created We are going to the final I try to make sure that your tripod doesn't budge even a little for any reason Let me try to align the source image automatically In this way they will all be properly aligned And it will take us 9 000 years to load it And we are going to start masking some parts of this car Okay We are going to the first image from the base Our next take is our brake light Then let's mask it Recreate a mask We are going to flip the mask so that we can paint it in the red glow Wow This feels good This feels really good Then this is the next close-up of the actual symbol So we're going to do a quick masking on that symbol And when you mask it I'll show you the difference This is what makes the difference in raising the front part of the car and catching those details This looks much better It is here that the finer details will come to the forefront You can play with your mask again to make it a bit better I think it's looking really good Let's look at it from every angle This feels really good I am really happy Our final composition is just eight images put together And then we can bring it back to the late room and give our final great What we are going to do now Then this is our final composition Obviously It will take me more than 10 minutes to put it all together And the ground in front of the car doesn't look very good It might be that I actually sent it to a photo editor And I will clear the snow in front of it so that it looks even better To be honest I would hire someone for this job on 5A Okay this is a very lovely final image This is a very simple technique that is very effective If you people use this technique please let me know Track your shots and I will try my best to comment on them It's always fun to see what you all end up making after watching tutorials like this If you want to know about the tools I used I have provided links to all of them below If you want to do this on a smaller budget I've also included some more affordable options to achieve similar results Thank you very much to Mercedes Benz for inviting us to play with all their super fun cars in Gimmli It includes this Arctic White Wagon which is really my dream car Also please leave your dream car comment below I say no I shouldn't melt I really like this car I like it very much I don't want to give it back I want it I'm just going to get the key Where is the key Oh do you know what would actually be helpful Each of you watches this video a thousand to ten thousand times And perhaps perhaps I have something like that The advertising fee is required for the down payment Then if you people can do it like you are working And then you can mute me but my video is still running Like I know it will eat up all your data And you will have to pay extra money and other similar things But I will send you a photo of my Jeep This is very foolish Hey hey