Light It Up

[Xtrah]

I took this shot the other day, playing with the light painting technique for the first time ever. It is a model airplane I bought the other day, sat on a table in the dark.

I'm pleased with the way the lighting turned out, I like that, but there have been other small things about the shot that have annoyed me. The wood grain just doesn't really look good, at all. I enjoyed the shot though!



Model: NIKON D90
ISO: 800
Exposure: 6.0 sec
Aperture: 25.0
Focal Length: 26mm

Any suggestions, etc are welcome, won't bother me! Enjoy!

[Xtrah]

[sheltiesmama]

That's a cool shot.

[nikthomas]

I really like this!

[ayelet710]

I like it a lot too. The wood grain is actually the last thing I noticed since the blue light is such an attention grabber. What is it about the grain you didn't like?

[Xtrah]

It just looks so fake, the goal of the shot really was to make you feel like its not a model airplane, while still keeping the "feel" of the picture. The blue light does take quite a lot of attention away from the grain though. I guess I didn't like how it (the wood) handled the lights put on it.

[Xtrah]

Model: NIKON D90
ISO: n/a
Exposure: 1/8 sec
Aperture: 36.0
Focal Length: 62mm

I took this the night before the airplane shot in my living room. I just pointed up at the fan and shot. I rotated, leveled, sharpened in PP work. Let me know what you think!

[Xtrah]