Cheers, just need to sort out driving etc and should all be ok.
From what I learnt last night: Fire trucks are huge and therefore you need longer exposures. Fire trucks are huge therefore they can't be put into many secluded places meaning ambient light is a BITCH to work with. Fire trucks are huge therefore focusing on the entire vehicle with light proves a challenge as swirls etc need to be larger (harder with the aforementioned ambient light issue). When shooting inside the hanger to get away from the ambient light, the fire truck is huge so therefore occupies most of the hanger meaning you can't get many details in and you're limited by space and your widest focal length (need a 10-22mm desperately). Fire trucks are huge so when they're sat outside flashing blues you attract a nice bit of attention from Joe public. Did I mention fire trucks are huge?
I've done better imho, would love to be able to do this again but in a darker location, or even on location at a fire (they didn't get a shout when we were there, shame as there could have been a few decent shots to have been had.) I did get to play with a thermal imaging camera though, which was pretty fun
Car Light Painting: Mercedes Fire Truck by Callum Sullivan, on Flickr
Car Light Painting: Mercedes Fire Truck by Callum Sullivan, on Flickr
Car Light Painting: Mercedes Fire Truck by Callum Sullivan, on Flickr
Car Light Painting: Mercedes Fire Truck by Callum Sullivan, on Flickr
Then we moved on to do something more familiar, cars. Arrive at Morrisons carpark to find it closed due to them not being open today (Easter Sunday) so had to go in one at the side, which had more ambient light, not helped that we were both tired from having been dancing around a fire truck for the past hour and a half.
Car Light Painting: BMW 330Ci by Callum Sullivan, on Flickr
Car Light Painting: BMW 330Ci by Callum Sullivan, on Flickr
Car Light Painting: BMW 330Ci by Callum Sullivan, on Flickr
All the car shots I've done over this week can be found here.
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