YaniDubin

Lake McGregor on a moonlit night

This is a blend of two 30 second exposures. The base image is naturally lit to produce a silhouette (as I am shooting into the moon), the second is light painte...
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This is a blend of two 30 second exposures. The base image is naturally lit to produce a silhouette (as I am shooting into the moon), the second is light painted from the right using an orange gel on a flash (fired manually, maybe 5-10 times at full power, though through a diffuser).

The lightpainting is then selectively blended in (using luminosity masks) to bring back in the autumnal foliage, as well as adding some definition to the stones, the tussock, and revealing the stones on the lake floor.

This is the first image I've processed where I've included light painting at all, and I'm quite happy with how it has worked out. The lightpainting itself lacked skill and refinement, partly because I was in a hurry (down to the last moments of my last camera battery, freezing fingers, waterlogged boots since I had climbed in up to my knees a little earlier, and 3 hours of road ahead of me). But through effective blending the critical elements can be brought in to produce a subtle result.
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