Record Cover

kdog

I shot some pictures of a recording artist and he chose this one to use. He's legally blind, but when the pictures are blown up real big he can get the gist of them.

Other than the text and graphics added at the bottom of the image, it's a single shot straight out of the camera. Any takers on how the effect was done?

Azzaro

Cool shot Joel.........Opened the shutter in a completely dark room, then shot the picture of the guy with a flash. With the shutter still open used a flashlight for the lighting effect I THINK......

kithylin

I've done this before, just shooting something with slower shutter speed and hand held and wiggle the camera around intentionally.

Looks like you took another shot of the guy singing clearly and layered it in with photoshop under the lights, maybe.

Juano

I like this very much...! I think it is a "flash freeze" using a slow shutter speed and flash.

kdog

Azzaro wrote: »

Cool shot Joel.........Opened the shutter in a completely dark room, then shot the picture of the guy with a flash. With the shutter still open used a flashlight for the lighting effect I THINK......

You are definitely on the right track Gary, hats off to ya!

kdog

kithylin wrote: »

I've done this before, just shooting something with slower shutter speed and hand held and wiggle the camera around intentionally.

Good comment, kithylin. Mix your idea with Gary's, and you pretty much nailed it.

Looks like you took another shot of the guy singing clearly ad layered it in with photoshop under the lights, maybe.

Nope. The effect was done entirely in the camera, as mentioned in the original post.

kdog

Juano wrote: »

I like this very much...! I think it is a "flash freeze" using a slow shutter speed and flash.

Bingo! But what is the busy background?

kdog

Answer
Here's the rest of the story.

We were on a plateau at night with a nice view of the Las Vegas skyline. I was shooting shots like this.



I was using a 2 second exposure to get the distant lights of the city bright enough, and using remote flashes to light my subject. I picked up the camera and tripod to move it and inadvertently tripped the shutter. That's it! Pure accident, but a trick I shall remember.

DaddyO

Would never have hit the guess concerning what created the light streamers. But I was pretty curious what did. Lovely shot that last one And I do enjoy the first as well. Very nice work.

kithylin

kdog wrote: »

Nope. The effect was done entirely in the camera, as mentioned in the original post.

Whoops! I totally missed that part in the OP, sorry