This was my final for a lighting class I'm taking. It combines a technique from lighting class with one I have been playing with lately. 2 minutes @ F22 about 20 minutes after sunset. I popped the tree in 4 different places w/ my flash.
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Hi Tony,
Thanks for posting! You got some nice, saturated colors on this shot. There's good detail on the tree trunk, and the tree is well placed in the composition. What was the subject matter in the lighting class?
What were your combined techniques? Let me guess, ultra long exposures, and manually lighting areas with a handheld flash? It worked well, The tree is very evenly lit even with 4 different pops.
Is that a CCD dust spot in the sky? It's very distracting. Perhaps you should clone it out in Photoshop.
This shot is a pretty good jolt of deep color after all my B&W posts, very striking and a little bit surreal. :)
--Warren
I really like itfor its remarkable colors, the uniqueness of the subject, and the composition.
Is there some rule of thumb you used when popping the flash, or was it trial-and-error?
How about the overall exposure - left on auto, or some other technique.
The spot on the left is probably inner lens reflection - flare. I think it's distracting too and will eventually clone it out. I didn't want to touch it w/ photoshop before my class because there had been a disagreement about whether or not the colors could be created used film techniques. The picture had to be unaltered.
The techniques were "painting w/ light" (thus the 4 pops of the flash) and shooting well after sunset but before the sky is completely black. At that time, there is no natural light on the subject and the sky can be captured as that incredible blue. Adding artificial light to the subject gives the picture a surreal quality. Many of the people in my class are so accustomed to photoshop they forget that there are tricks that can be played just using film. And just to clarify the debate in my class - I was actually the pro-digital one. Many of the students rail against the artificiality of photoshop, so I wanted to remind them that manipulation of light was a possibility long before Adobe.
I used a flash meter to judge my flash strength/ f-stop combination and I bracketed the shutter speed to get the color. The difficulty is that you have about a 20 minute window and lose a stop of light every couple of minutes. I was shooting Kodak Gold - 400 net film.
Oh, I thought you were shooting with the D70 :) That spot looks just like CCD dust.
That class sounds familiar. I think Martin took that class too, and didn't he post a picture a while back that was made with that in mind?
The subject of artificiality of photoshop has been on my mind lately. I might post something about this, which is related to my recent post, "Heart Check". I'll do that if I have time.
Anyway, nice work on this pic!
--Warren
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