
Among the things I have (amidst the clutter) on my side desk
is a couple LED flashlights. I figured
I'd play. The neighbors must have
thought I was going insane or something.
After setting up the tripod, doing the focusing, setting the F-stop to
F16 and the shutter speed to 30 seconds the light would go off, then back on,
off then back on, off then back on. That
probably lasted for fifteen minutes or more.
In addition to turning the lights off I turned the monitors off
also. I was using Adobe Photoshop
Lightroom 3 with the camera tethered and tripping the shutter using the on
screen button. That meant putting the
cursor over the button, then flipping off the monitor and clicking on the
mouse.
I used the LED flashlight to "paint" the desktop. Using a light painting technique means your
first shot is a guess at where the light should play. You get a look at the result and make
adjustments to the plan and shoot again.
It takes a few shots to get the pattern and timing down, but in the end
you can get some interesting shots. It
takes a little patience, but it is a fun way to "create" an image.
I've already mentioned that the monitors were off during the
exposure. The image on the screens were brought
in and Free Transform (CTRL T) was used with Distort selected (right click
within the image after starting the Free Transform to get a drop down menu to
choose from) to make the images fit the skewed screens.
The photographer (it's not me) is a shot from a trip down to
Tennessee a couple years ago. We were in
a public garden and the fellow was shooting flowers. I thought it was interesting to take a shot
of a fellow photographer so intent on what he was doing. The Quick Select Tool (W) was used to make
the majority of the selection. One of
the nice things about using a Wacom tablet is the speed that you can have
cleaning up a selection. Once the
selection was made the Refine Edge dialog box was called up and a two pixel Feather
applied along with a small amount of Smoothing.
I wasn't worried about his shoes being in the grass. As you can see, the idea was to make it look
like he was stand behind the keyboard.
Adding to the already made Mask put him in place.
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