As photographers, we’re constantly fighting against (or with) varying light sources. The sun, the moon, street lighting and fluorescent car park lights. We must learn how to work best with them and against them when the time comes. Of course you always have the option of taking matters into your own hands…

Off-camera lighting has never been cheaper and information about varying techniques is easily accessed and widespread. You don’t even need anything more than a camera and any sort of light-emitting device.

Whether you’re working with multiple studio flash heads or the light on the back of your phone, your only limitation is your imagination.

If you want to take part in this theme, you’ll need to do the following:

• E-mail your submissions to iamthespeedhunter@speedhunters.com with the exact subject line of  ‘The Flash Theme’.
• Tell us your name, location and a little bit about the photograph.
• Attach the image directly to the email but ensure the image is no larger than 2000px on the longest side and a minimum of 1920PX.
• Make sure the image is free of any distracting watermarks. Don’t worry, we will make sure you are properly credited.
• Closing date for submissions is December 13th 2013.

Please note that all submissions are now in high resolution.

Safe shooting.

Paddy McGrath
Twitter: @PaddyMcGrathSH
Instagram: speedhunters_paddy
paddy@speedhunters.com

#IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER

About #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER

We created #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER to allow you the opportunity to share your skills and car culture experiences from around the globe with the rest of the Speedhunters audience.

How do you get involved? It’s simple…

Flickr - Join our #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER Flickr Group and share your favourite photos with us and others.
Instagram – Follow us on Instagram at @TheSpeedhunters and tag your own car culture images with #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER
Twitter – Follow us on Twitter at @SPEEDHUNTERS and share your tweets with the #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER hashtag.
Tumblr – Visit our Tumblr page to view the latest #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER tagged images.
E-Mail – If you’ve been to a cool event and captured some amazing images, be sure to e-mail them to us on iamthespeedhunter@speedhunters.com and tell us a little bit about the event. The images need to be a minimum of 1920×1280 pixels.

Have you submitted already but not yet been featured? Here are some tips to help you…

DO – Tell us your name!
DO – Submit your best work, regardless of when it was taken
DO – Take your time shooting and consider each detail
DO – Try to submit each image no smaller than 1920PX wide
DON’T – Put a huge watermark on it. We’ll make sure you’re credited
DON’T – Send us huge image files that kill our e-mail system
DON’T – Send us scary ZIP or RAR files. We won’t open them