Maximum Overdrive.

6 months ago i would have really liked this image. Having worked with a commercial photographer for a while now, I feel that adding light to an area that would not normally have light in it is taboo. I think your image tries to look for a mood. I think that sticking a metz in the cockpit of the truck defeats the purpose to an extent. It is now the light from the flash that takes centre stage in your image. I wonder what it would have looked like at sunset or even painting with a torch with a long exposure.

I'm afraid I don't understand. Why would you apply some silly commercial standard of adding light being taboo to this photo, and then say you would add light with a torch. Is this a commercial photograph? Is adding flash lighting taboo and adding torch lighting not? I'm so confused..........This is a great photo. It shows a painstaking set up process and great originality and it is aesthetically pleasing to look at imho. Congratulations to K. Praslowicz on a nice night scene. I love pro 64T at night!

The lighting comment kind of confused me also. I did also do the same shot with a front light, its cool, but I liked the eeryness of the unlit from shot better so that one got the post here. I don't know why adding light would be taboo either, I'm sure most commercial product shots use light other then what the sun(or moon) is giving. One of the advantages of shooting night scenes is the amount of creativity you can put into the lighting when you have 8-25 minutes to work with flashes, as opposed to 1/250th of a second. Befinitly a plus when shooting for surrealism.

 

Here is the same shot with a front light also.

 

http://zeropoint.six-something.org/v02/images/photos/july2001/kafka.jpg

Great concept, subject, execution, and originality. Killer work.

i really like this shot too...i don't care where the light came from, i care what the shot looks like with the light, and it adds a cool mood to this picture...well done...

 

larry