cyberpunk (2023) (Patreon)

The book is ever-closer to completion (I just need the time to do a lot of formatting and admin stuff that I have not had the time to do while my house is still... not really a house and more like the gutted shell of one I lived in back when I was homeless, lmfao). Anyway, this is my friend Xan with their Golf R32, and this is the only shoot in the book that uses artificial lighting (everything else is ambient, natural light).

To accomplish this shoot we put one LED (pink) on a light stand and I had Xan's wife hold the other LED (blue). That's it. Two lights + whatever ambient streetlights I could find nearby. The spot we used wasn't really a spot I was confident we could stick around at, so while we had more lights and an inverter to run them off an EV, it proved more practical to just crank the ISOs and get what I could get with the minimalist lighting setup. It was kind of a gamble, as I haven't actually shot with a setup like this at night in... almost seven years. But hey, I think it worked!