lighting black on black backgrounds

http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-black-objects-on-black-backgrounds

This has been a very useful link that really inspired my work on the lighting for the eurosport advert and although I didn't use different coloured gels like in this link but rather inspired some of my thinking in terms of how to use rim lighting on the subject we are focusing on, the line on the page which says how lighting is just as much about what not to light as it is, what to light. This really got me thinking about how to apply lighting to the correct areas. When lighting the bike I wanted to cast the light from the back just on the wheels so that the lighting looked like it was coming from the front and casting a circular light like the tires behind the bike, this then the lit backside of the lower section of the bike and for higher shots of the bike I just moved the lights further up the frame of the bike but without trying to cast the light into the lens of the camera, instead using the natural shape of the bike with the light bouncing up it slightly. The link also proved useful for understanding how to light photos on black backgrounds when the subject is also useful although I wasn’t aware the subject would be black until it came to the day of the shoot, although from what I read on this page proved helpful when it came to the day of the shoot. It also help to think about not trying to light everything at once but rather turn lights off and on to get the main and fill and rim lights correct. It has also gave me some great thinking for the raven project I am working on in terms of casting some lighting strips to just light important areas like the eyes and face while the rest is in shadow.