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30 second shutter, tripod, exposing for dusk while light painting the foreground with a Manfrotto Spectra LED light....
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30 second shutter, tripod, exposing for dusk while light painting the foreground with a Manfrotto Spectra LED light.
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30 second shutter, tripod, exposing for dusk while light painting the foreground with a Manfrotto Spectra LED light.
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It's on every photographer's bucket list to photograph Joshua Tree National Park in California. Since I'm also a rock climber, the ambition to make it to JT was two fold. We climbed all day, cooked a campfire dinner at sunset and then played with light until late in the night.Time
This was just around dusk. I had waited until the sky was almost dark so I could expose for the sky and nothing else, then set up my camera on a tripod.Lighting
The lighting was ambient and the effects are from light painting. This--other than a tiny bump in saturation--was almost as is raw from the camera. No photoshop. I had about a 20 second exposure; just enough time for me to sprint through the frame with my Manfrotto LED light and paint the foreground and create a leading line through the frame. I timed the shot to capture the passing car in the background and Viola!Equipment
Canon 6D, 16-35mm f/2.8L, Manfrotto LEDInspiration
The absolute mystery and hypnotizing landscape of Joshua Tree. You just feel like you're in outer space and I wanted to create a surreal photograph that captured that.Editing
Not really. I adjusted some basic settings in lightroom to enhance the mood, but there was no photoshop.In my camera bag
I always keep little tools and trinkets for photo effects. Such as my Manfrotto LED light, a pack of glow sticks, a spray bottle and smoke bombs.Feedback
Patience; it took a few tries to get the composition I wanted, but I was more than happy to run back and forth with the light to get what I wanted. Thanks to all my friends who waited patiently while I played with my camera equipment to get these shots! The longer your exposure, the more time you have to run through the frame and experiment with warm vs. cool lighting in different areas (if you have a light that changes Kelvin). Make sure you have the right aperture too--don't set the DOF too shallow and keep your ISO as reasonable low as possible so you have as many pixels as possible to work with in post. The trick is a very long exposure.