Behind The Scenes - Light Painting My RX7 FD3S with @garethb
What is light painting?
"Light Painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source while taking a long exposure photograph"
@garethb is a master at wielding what I call a lightsaber. Those in the know will refer to it as a light wand or light stick. He had a pretty wicked one at that, it could do all sorts of colours and if used correctly it could make awesome photos just like the one below. Go check out the complete photos on his blog
The game plan
We started off by cleaning up the car as best as we could, with only a few minutes left till sunset we decided to go blasting around the area. It was the first time @garethb was inside my RX7 FD3S and he really enjoyed it other than being a little cramped in the passenger area.
If you are too lazy to carry on reading, I put together a montage video of what happened. Either way, watch it! It's only a minute long :)
Once we finished messing around on the roads we headed over to my parents house as they have a lot more space in their driveway to achieve these shots than I do.
@garethb and I set off to turn off all outdoor lights and move all cars out of the way, including my highly neglected black Mazda RX7 FD3S. Once everything was out of the pay we positions the silver RX7 dead center of the driveway and @garethb began with his magic.
A view through the lens of greatness
I've never seen anything like this, I've only just recently picked up my own DSLR, albeit a cheap and nasty EOS1200d but a DSLR nonetheless and well I have no idea how to shoot cars. The shots @garethb was able to achieve with long exposure was absolutely phenomenal. Again if you missed it earlier here's the link to his blog check out the completed photos.
Light Paint my other JDM's?
If I get a decent response from this post @garethb and I may consider light painting the R32 GTR, it's difficult to do this with the other two cars as with a black car the lines tend to get a little lost in the dark background. Or so I've heard from the professional :)
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Well done ..
Wonderful work .. No limits to creativity
Thanks for sharing your experience with us
Lol, you need to modify the seat rails somehow so I can fit in comfortably. These cars weren't designed for anyone over 6ft...
But still, awesome experience!
You probably have problems squeezing in with the stock steering wheel. My seats go pretty far back, when I tilt them a bit they are almost touching the rear seats. The seat rails can be easily modded to let the seat slide back a few cm extra too.
Thank god, I'm a midget. No adjustment needed, I rock it on final click and it's just okay for me. Except I tore my underwear the other morning getting in
You're a Pygmy not a midget, lets get that straight lol. Underwear haha.
Listen here you Gandalf looking motherfucker, profiling hurts peoples feelings okay!
Let's hope for a better one when the modifications are done! Even 50kw more would be a blast!
50kw is more powerful than my entire first car :| Need to do a GTR vs RX7 run sometime...
Boost controller fawked on the GTR, I'm 75% sure the RX7 will win in a rolling battle with the broken boost controller. Could be an interesting race like that though
I had seen a few examples light painting, but never knew how it worked exactly. Very pretty pictures of a very pretty RX-7.
Thank you buddy! It came out really well, going to be doing my R32 GT-R soon... black MR2 and RX7 won't work with this effect unfortunately.
Heeheh, looks like you've had lots of fun over there.
Cool pictures and that technique is truly amazing.
When it comes to the RX-7... it looks like it just came out from the factory :O
@garethb did a fantastic job, his equipment is also pretty awesome! :)
Great work guys, the shots look amazing!
Thanks bro!!
nice shot!
That’s a gorgeous FD, have to light paint my NA!
Pretty happy with how these ones turned out - next up is the R32 GTR :)
That’s awesome, wish I could have tagged along!
We'll make sure to document it all and post it here, and then it'll feel like you were right there with us :)
@Ipreap Thank you buddy! Next time will be the GTR and maybe some daytime stuff with the black cars
Loved that you showed the behind the scenes part of this!
It was a good team effort from myself and @nelkeljdm :) We'll have to collaborate again for the next shoot
Thanks @snrm :) We'll do this again for the GTR
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