I spent some of my down time last week rendering out the car in a new setting. I was curious about achieving a nice studio lighting affect to showcase the car in a simple well lit image, so I picked one of my teachers brains about it and he provided a very interesting solution that I wouldn't have thought of otherwise. This image was made with no actual lights and a few planes of geometry. Two large planes are placed above the car with a white surface shader applied to them and then final gathering turned on in the render settings. That's it! It took about 2 minutes to render out something that looked pretty good and then about an hour of toying with positioning of the planes and the color of the background.
