VE6AB Technical
Photography from Within
Youll find that I shoot a lot of photos from the interior of my vehicle as seen in my mobile ham radio gallery. In most cases this is photography related to my ham-radio endeavors that display the radio-stack mounted in my vehicle.
It can be challenging to photograph the interior of a vehicle with all the reflective surfaces that reflect light, the dark shadowy areas that go black, the radio displays burning out due to over exposure at the same time.
The choices are without a flash or using fill-flash. However a flash can create ugly photos with reflective surfaces displaying this unwanted light if the flash is not used correctly.
This photo seen here was shot with an on-camera strobe equipped with a movable flashhead. I used a white diffuser over the flash head to soften the light. The light produced by the flash head was bounced off of the gray non reflective ceiling of my truck (the ceiling color close to an 18% grey card), the flash pointed backwards set at about a 15 degree angle from vertical. The flash was set for a stop under as the results with the flash set at default setting created a photo with the resulting light on the harsh side. The flash was also set for an 18mm lens, the lens being used on the camera shooting the photograph that was set in aperture priority with the aperture set at f8, and 1/3 stop over for the exposure, and the spot-focus-point the camera sitting in the steering wheel. The ISO was set at 800 to keep the shutter speed up for hand-holding the camera.
You'll notice that there is ambient light entering the vehicle through the windows of the vehicle, and this was taken into consideration when setting up the camera and strobe.
Of course it goes without saying the camera sitting in the steering wheel was part of the photograph seen here, and not the camera being used to shoot the photograph.
This same photograph if shot without fill-flash would have lost much of the detail required to have been a properly exposed photograph as seen here.
