Here's a light painting shot from our August 24 trip to Bodie State Historic Park. How can you bring life to a long-dead car? We lit the headlights with small LED lights, +Chris Whiting had an LED panel for the interior which he put a warming filter over, and Chris suggested a smoky effect with "el wire". We tried a few variations, and soon we were getting results like this. We had limited time on this night to run around and get Milky Way shots before the moon rose, so we didn't quite have time to perfect the concept.
On each visit we try to introduce a few new concepts as well as continue to perfect old ones we initiated on past trips. The light is a little bright with the moon down like this, but with the moon up, or more light on the car, we should be able to balance the elements of the scene well.
I could post-process this twice and decrease the brightness of the blue light in one of the results, then blend the two back together in Photoshop. I like to do as much as possible in camera though, so I'll probably try this again on our upcoming October 12 visit: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photography-workshops/ #Bodie #nightphotography #workshop
Ghost tires smoking
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Ooohooo Lovely.... :-) :-) :-0
Awesome!!!!!
型!
Incredible work.
Fantastic!
I love this. Brilliant in more ways than one. I think it's the contrast of yellow and blue across the (I almost said painting) photo that really sets it off. Terrific.
Thanks everyone!
Contrasting "warm"/yellow tones and "cool"/blue colors is one of my favorite combinations +Brian Duff. It's particularly nice when you can get a mixture of the two in the sky, often during evening twilight and "blue hour", when there's still a little diffuse warm light from the sun coming over the horizon.
How fun!! I love the light!!
Amazing :D