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Experimenting with light

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Posted by: Rich Rohrich---------------------

I was fiddling around with some ideas for shooting night scenes and tested this one idea using a poster on a wall in a dark room.

No photoshop stuff, just a bit of white balance correction for the light source and normal sharpening.

Nikon D200, 24-70 Sigma lens, F2.8, 15 second exposure.

It's a crappy picture but as a proof of concept it does what I needed. I think I might be on to something interesting here.


Posted by: Chili---------------------

Can't wait to see where this goes...


Posted by: Rich Rohrich---------------------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chili
Can't wait to see where this goes...


Me too


Posted by: oldguy---------------------

and once again Rich goes right over my head and comprehension with his ideas


Posted by: olderndirtmom---------------------

ooh, I know I know...!!!!

It's gonna be way cool!!

(Safe to say under any circumstances when we are talking about the technowizard! Lol. Kind of like predicting the sun'll come up in the morning!)

But it IS gonna be way cool.


Posted by: whenfoxforks-ruled---------------------

Is there going to be an after photoshop pic?


Posted by: Rich Rohrich---------------------

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Originally Posted by whenfoxforks-ruled
Is there going to be an after photoshop pic?


I don't know enough about Photoshop to do anything particularly interesting with it, so I pretty much have to do it in the camera or not at all.


Posted by: olderndirtmom---------------------

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Originally Posted by Rich Rohrich
Nikon D200, 24-70 Sigma lens, F2.8, 15 second exposure.


I'm sort of techno-ignorant, so if I'm mistaken, please gently say so...But if I might ask...Have you omitted one of the essential elements to the proof of concept here?
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(flash/lighting?)


Posted by: Rich Rohrich---------------------

I used a mini Maglite.


Posted by: Squid31---------------------

I believe this is called painting with light or something like that. I've seen some stuff on the web about it but have never tried it myself. Looks like it could be fun.


Posted by: olderndirtmom---------------------

Like this one?:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/852c/

(The guy or woman who wrote the intro to this ad undoubtedly wrote it about you, Rich.)


Posted by: olderndirtmom---------------------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Squid31
I believe this is called painting with light or something like that. I've seen some stuff on the web about it but have never tried it myself. Looks like it could be fun.


Indeed! Looks like the surf's up!

(ie. I need to check this one out further.)


Posted by: Rich Rohrich---------------------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Squid31
I believe this is called painting with light or something like that. I've seen some stuff on the web about it but have never tried it myself. Looks like it could be fun.


I started digging around the other night and found the same thing Squid.

Dave Black the sports photographer has some really good info on the technique on his website. It looks like I'm on the right track.

http://www.daveblackphotography.com...g-technique.htm



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Originally Posted by olderndirtmom


That looks way tricker than the one I was using. I'm going to have to investigate that further.



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