Since I only now have a reasonably good camera I haven’t had much experience shooting at night. The iPhone 14 Pro is pretty good but it also just seems to fill everything in … or miss everything. I still haven’t shot much at night but I wanted to explore Lightroom a little and see how the use of masks could mimic light. I started with the photo above.

This is an incredibly rare air cooled Porsche and, given the car’s placement, a photo that was taken 10,000 times during the one day event. It’s a bad-ass car, trust me, the 1995 Porsche 911 Supercup 3.8, and the placement at the event was brilliant … but this is photo a lot of really talented photographers took.

But what if we did this?

I suspect I will be able to spend 1,000 hours figuring out how to add and manipulate light in Lightroom. I did try using the old version of Photoshop to add 3D lighting but it was a pain and I have to imagine there is a better piece of software out there … I just have to figure out what that is.

Until then.