Jeff Panganiban's photostream

5 Exposures merged in Photoshop.

Strobist: 420ex in 28" softbox, fired multiple times around bike.

This is my wife's new car. I really didn't want to her to buy a black car cause I knew it was going to be a huge pain in the ass to shoot. Anyways, this is the best I could do. It's a composite of a whole bunch of photos combined into one in post. I had the camera on a tripod and aimed my soft box at different parts of the car to light the lines.

Strobist: 5D, 1/160 f/6.3ish.
Canon 420ex in a 24" apollo softbox @ 1/2 power fired multiple times around the car.

So I looked out my window and I see this awesome sky. I packed up all my gear and drove out to the park. Im just about finished setting up my light stand so I grab my flash, I then realized that there were no batteries in it... luckily I see some spare batteries in one of pockets, pop 'em in.... and of course they're dead. I curse to the sky very loudly and I start frantically searching through all the pockets of my camera bag. I reach into the last pocket and... AH HA! I see batteries still INSIDE the battery charger, SURELY, these must be fresh. So I quickly pop them into my flash and turn it on, I set the power setting and notice its taking an unusually long time to give me a ready light. 15 seconds later it dies... uhhhhhhhh.

So anyways, here's the sky that would've been the background of a self-portrait.

Quick shot before a long night of studying...