Painting a Car

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What does the expression 'Painting a car' mean.

I know its to do with the subject being a car and I guess painting is to do with lighting but not sure how this is done.

Cheers.
 
Although its popular with cars you can light paint just about anything. It refers to setting the camera on a slow shutter speed and lighting the subject with a torch or similar by moving it across the subject to light it. Hence the expression 'painting'. You have to keep the torch / light moving to get an even light on the subject.
 
gmogle said:
What does the expression 'Painting a car' mean.

I know its to do with the subject being a car and I guess painting is to do with lighting but not sure how this is done.

Cheers.
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Painting a car or anything else refers to using a torch to illuminate it rather than ambient or flash.

You can do it with anything - I do it with models

Set your camera to bulb and away you go
 
In relation to car's check out THIS guide to car light painting :thumbs: by fellow forum member Andrew (AndWhyNot) its great :thumbs:

But as has been said above it really isn't just cars :thumbs:

Matt
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Wow great link, cheers for that. Never ever thought of doing anything like that. Gives me some ideas :)
 
I saw a guy doing this on sunday night at North Queensferry near the Forth railway bridge in Fife,he was a bit of distance away from me and didn't go out of my way to see what he was doing. He was photographing green sports car,If anyone finds any photos of it I would like to see them. Cheers.
 
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