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Old 11-05-2008, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by zespri View Post
Has anyone done this using coloured paper? I don't have black paper, so used coloured. But I can't get it to work, my lights just look like lights, no shape to them. When I look through the lens, I vaguely see the shape of my star around the edges, but mostly just my subject. Is that what you folks see? And should I be focusing on the light, or something else? *scratches head*
I had to play around a bit too, I had my subject too close to the lights at first and got no shapes on those. Once I moved the subject further away from the lights I saw the shapes.
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