| As an advertising photographer I know that no matter how tight the layout, often it's only a starting point for the visuals. For Fallon's BMW campaign I brought along tungsten hot lights and a generator even though night or dusk shots were not called for in any of the layouts. Sure enough, as we were reviewing the last of the scouted locations, the creative director and I decided to add a shot of the bike on this perfect stretch of road - we needed to work fast in order get the last light left in the sky in the shot. After rigging a 1000-Watt light to an outrigger arm at the back of the camera car and firing up the generator, we were able to have a constant light source traveling with us illuminating the bike keeping pace behind us. I shot 2 rolls of 1 second exposures (to streak the treetops moving by) on my stomach from the camera truck's tailgate dropped to its lowest level before we lost the light in the sky. |
