Sequia Sphere
Nov, 2014Views
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Location
Kings Canyon in the Sequia National Park in CaliforniaTime
It was taken around 3pmLighting
taken in natural light ,Equipment
A Canon G9 pearched on a Bogen Monfroto TripodInspiration
The shear natural beauty of the scene before meEditing
As this is a composite photo. from a RAW, file sure there was....the background scene was adjusted for contrast brightness and and saturation the resulting. RAW TO .tiff to .jpeg conversion was then taken into Adobe Photoshop CS2 where the sun flare and rays were created a seperate layer was made and. using the spherize tool I created the "Crystal ball" that was flipped both horizontally and vertically to mimic refraction hightlight reflections as well as the "edge" of the ball were also created. Using the Canon ..again on the monfroto with self timer a second photo was taken of my hands against a black sheet to make it easy to seperate them from the background.... all 3 elements were then combined to. create the resulting Image Shown here.In my camera bag
I travel light ...usually a Sony. A58 slt and a fuji fine pix P&S the Canon G9 used for this image no longer functionsFeedback
think outside the box learn to use raw files and photoshop as its todays digital equivalent of the old "wet" film darkroom
