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Challenge 74: Sweeping up light!

sirsloopsirsloop Registered Users Posts: 866 Major grins
edited September 23, 2006 in The Dgrin Challenges
One out of Andy's book... just playin around tonight over a few beers :thumb

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    douglasdouglas Registered Users Posts: 696 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    Very cool effect! The shadow on the left of broom head is a bit distracting, but over all very cool!
    Best regards,
    douglas
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    sirsloopsirsloop Registered Users Posts: 866 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    douglas wrote:
    Very cool effect! The shadow on the left of broom head is a bit distracting, but over all very cool!

    thats actually the broom... the left hand side is a dark blue handle...
    http://www.tallmanphoto.com
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    ESigginsESiggins Registered Users Posts: 185 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    Mind if I ask how this is done (promise I won't copy)?

    Fred
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    douglasdouglas Registered Users Posts: 696 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    ah ok, that makes more sense, i couldnt figure out why it was such a strange shadow.
    Best regards,
    douglas
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    sirsloopsirsloop Registered Users Posts: 866 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    ESiggins wrote:
    Mind if I ask how this is done (promise I won't copy)?

    Fred
    Its basically a 5-15 second exposure in a completely dark room with a flash light. I used aluminum foil to disperse the light into the shape I wanted as seen below. I turned the lights on and focued on the broom, then turned the lens to MF and shot in manual mode from then on. This is a mixture of three different photographs. The first I just exposed the broom and attempted to blow out to very bottom center. The next two shots were sweeping motions done with the flash light laying flat on the floor. Just run it across the floor out of the frame. This takes some playing around to get. The two shots I used were actually the second and third attempt out of like 80. From there it was into TIFF format and into Photoshop CS2. I cut out the broom and jacked up the contrast and saturation. I edited the two brush photos to black out any exposed things in the shot like my stove that picked up some stray light. The first swoop was changed to blue and made very bright. Then I did the same to the second and make an opaque layer over the blue. It resulted in that kind of foggy texture. There was a lot of playing with a soft eraser to get things blended. I wanted to watch some TV so I ran it through neat image and gave up on it for the night. I'll probably clean it up a little this weekend and order a 20x24" print for my living room. It'll go nicely with my waterdrop photograph!
    http://www.dslreports.com/showpic/dimaging?lid=104187&1=1

    Lastly... I don't want to take all the credit for this idea. Andy turned me on to painting light, and this is my version of it. As soon a saw his photo I immedatly thought about making mine look more fluid, and multicolored kinda like norther lights. I think its getting close... to be continued...

    http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1076987

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    judyfuessjudyfuess Registered Users Posts: 259 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    Really cool effect !!! Love the colors in this. It looks almost like a mist coming up from the ground.
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    mr peasmr peas Registered Users Posts: 1,369 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    hey thats just like 'painting with light' by whats his name a while ago cool
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    gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    mr peas wrote:
    hey thats just like 'painting with light' by whats his name a while ago cool
    I think Peter Dumont is who you are talking about. He was really good at it. Another good one that doesn't frequent the board anymore.:cry
    Nick
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    gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    Here it is...it won a challenge a while back. By david from D/grin

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    ZygoteZygote Registered Users Posts: 128 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    Amazing what a few beers can do :) No seriously, this is an awsome picture. Very cool and thanks for the tutorial!

    Amazing the one you posted too, gus!
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    sirsloopsirsloop Registered Users Posts: 866 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    yeah... exactly...
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    ESigginsESiggins Registered Users Posts: 185 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    Thanks, Sloop. I'll have to give it a go.
    Shoot, or shoot not. There is no try.
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    cdhamescdhames Registered Users Posts: 128 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    yep
    great creativity. i'll give it a try also..
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    SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    gus wrote:
    Here it is...it won a challenge a while back. By david from D/grin
    In case you didn't see it pop up on the banner every 10 refreshes or so....
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    douglasdouglas Registered Users Posts: 696 Major grins
    edited September 22, 2006
    You can also see Dave Parry's Tutorial here
    Best regards,
    douglas
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    ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2006
    really cool! When you mess around over a few beers, you really work at it!

    ginger:D
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
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