Posted: 1/25/2009 7:41:43 AM EDT
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Next time, I'm going to get someone to sit on that rock and give me a cool sihouette.
Shot close to Midnight in the Superstition Mountains. 15 minute exposure. 
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Thanks.
Rik, There are a couple ways to do it, but compositing is definately an option. Since this is a 15 minute exposure, I only need someone there for about 2 minuts to give the sihouette. If they are there any longer than that, you will start to get too much detail as the starlight starts to expose them to the level of the rocks. Another way is to hit the subject with a backlight for just a few seconds, and then have them move. We actually practiced light painting and had people moving within the frame. Because the exposure is so long, and the light levels are so low, they don't show up at all unless they loose light disicpline and hit themselves with light or stay in one place for too long. |
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Thanks. Rik, There are a couple ways to do it, but compositing is definately an option. Since this is a 15 minute exposure, I only need someone there for about 2 minuts to give the sihouette. If they are there any longer than that, you will start to get too much detail as the starlight starts to expose them to the level of the rocks. Another way is to hit the subject with a backlight for just a few seconds, and then have them move. We actually practiced light painting and had people moving within the frame. Because the exposure is so long, and the light levels are so low, they don't show up at all unless they loose light disicpline and hit themselves with light or stay in one place for too long. +1 and very nice images. I'm going to have to give this a "whirl" 
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| I want to try this. Unfortunately, I live in the middle of Jacksonville. You're luck to see very many stars at all. I'll have to try it when I get to my parents farm in Indiana. Every time I "go home" I'm startled when I look up the sky at night. It almost looks fake because there are so many bright stars. |