Hasta La Ideas

Remember our Car Studio Photography Set-Ups entry? That gave you a pretty good look at the insane amount of equipment required to shoot automobiles. But of course it didn’t cover every possible situation; most of the earlier set-ups we saw were all about diffusing the overhead light, like this:

Australia-based Easton Chang, on the other hand, used unfiltered tungsten lighting while capturing a Holden VF Commodore, resulting in one of the “hotter” shoots of his career:

“All the lights were (boiling!) hot tungsten lights,” Chang writes. “There were a total of 84 lights, including the ones lighting the front of the car which you can’t see in the shot.

“The results? Absolutely boiling hot conditions, the paint (which was one off and uber expensive) started to bubble and the metal on my tripod was too hot to touch with your bare hands.”

Chang, by the way, may just have one of the coolest jobs in the world: He travels the globe photographing exotic cars, capturing shots like these:

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