Car Photography

A couple of weeks ago I hooked up with an old acquaintance who now runs a business buying, restoring and selling classic european cars - www.europeanclassiccars.co.uk - and took some photos of a rather nice old Citroen DS Super 5 which he's selling. It's the first time I've dealt with trying to light something so unforgiving - curved, shiny, metallic, reflective - there's no place to hide the lights, so you have to make the highlights part of the composition. Which is (comparatively) easy in a professional studio, but a bear of a task in a dark barn with lots of other cars and assorted junk in the background, limited space, and a doorway that's leaking too much light to work with long exposures. The results were a bit underwhelming, but at least next time I can go with a much better idea of how to solve the problems.