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8 Comments |
davidbidmead
 
davidbidmead November 17, 2013
Great effects ! Nice lighting.
gopalakrishnan
 
gopalakrishnan November 22, 2013
very nice
jleiweke
 
jleiweke November 22, 2013
Congrats!
tsambaproductions
 
tsambaproductions November 23, 2013
congrats
heathernobiling
 
heathernobiling December 07, 2013
This is amazing! Love it so much!
fernandoamato
 
fernandoamato December 12, 2013
Great shot
diani
 
diani April 24, 2016
like a movie shot, super atmospher
mikipurcell
 
mikipurcell January 29, 2019
Reminds me of the wizard of oz. a picture of the scarecrow. Beautifully done

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Behind The Lens

Location

This shot was taken during floriade nightfest in Australia's capital, Canberra. Happens every spring, so a new one is about to kickoff. I have a bunch of images from the event and others like it in Canberra over the years. Have a peak.... http://www.darrencharlesphotography.com.au/GalleriesFolder/NightFest/

Time

The floriade free flower festival has a nightime segment which you have to pay to enter and it runs for 5 nights. This was what I did and came across this scene by accident. Some guy was messing around for his girlfriend who was just to the right of him out of shot.

Lighting

During the festival they light up various areas of Commonwealth Park, each year is different. In this instance they had smoke creeping in from the stage beyond the trees. Timing was just right, the floodlights just lit up the scene and from my angle down the slope somewhat looking up, it created a really interesting silhouette of the trees and the guy, who at this angle and lack of front light looks to have no head.

Equipment

I like to travel lite, so I used my Olympus OMD EM5 and my Lumix G 35-100 F2.8 lens. ISO was set on 400 and shutter speed was 1/3 sec...the image stabilizer in this camera worked well.

Inspiration

Wish I could say I staged it because I had this great vision, but sadly it was just an opportunistic moment. It was as I saw it, it just reminded me of the movie Sleepy Hallow....a tree and a headless guy. It looked so cool so I shot it.

Editing

I didn't need to do much processing on this particular image, just pushed up the contrast after turning it Black and White...done!

In my camera bag

I really do like to travel lite otherwise I find I wont take my camera out unless on a paid job. Just a single body and a few choice lenses.

Feedback

I wish I could say something deep and meaningful. Like most photographers, you always have an eye out for something interesting to shoot. If you want to capture this sort of thing you need to go out and visit these type of festivals. Or stage the shoot yourself :)

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