First go at light painting.

[welshname]

Thanks, the location for the Polo one and the first one of my car was perfect, no light pollution at all really. All the locations we were at last night made everything yellow

 

[Mr Burns]

Very nice, especially for a first attempt. I must get out there and take some more soon!

 

[Eddie.]

I'll start my own thread when I can be bothered to PS the rest of my photos, but a quick one I just did at work:

DSC09450Edit by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

And a crop of the same shot:

DSC09450EditCrop by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Think the ZS might be a bit over exposed for the shot, I haven't done a great deal to it on PS, but for me it's the worst bit.

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Nice attempts! Just need more light on the car, or use a bigger aperture possibly.

 

[Eddie.]

Would a bigger aperture cause excessive brightness from the motorway though??? Genuine question!

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Yes, unless you reduced your shutter speed.

For a complex shot like that I would do multiple exposures, one for the motorway (maybe even another one for the sky) and definitely one each for the cars. So much going on otherwise.

 

[welshname]

Yes, unless you reduced your shutter speed.

For a complex shot like that I would do multiple exposures, one for the motorway (maybe even another one for the sky) and definitely one each for the cars. So much going on otherwise.

How do you avoid making having clear distinctions between each exposure you've used though? I found when I layered multiple images and adjusted things like whitebalance you could clearly see that it wasn't right.

 

[joshhicky]

love the pictures mate

 

[Eddie.]

Slightly better edit on the cropped photo:

DSC09450EditCrop by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Yes, unless you reduced your shutter speed.

For a complex shot like that I would do multiple exposures, one for the motorway (maybe even another one for the sky) and definitely one each for the cars. So much going on otherwise.

Yeah I thought about that, but sometimes I find it never works proporly, like Rhys is saying:

How do you avoid making having clear distinctions between each exposure you've used though? I found when I layered multiple images and adjusted things like whitebalance you could clearly see that it wasn't right.

I thought changing the opacity of the layers, and making very fine adjustments would be the best way, but I don't really know being honest!

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

How do you avoid making having clear distinctions between each exposure you've used though? I found when I layered multiple images and adjusted things like whitebalance you could clearly see that it wasn't right.

Thats the tricky bit. Just careful blending in photoshop, and taking care when taking the photos.

 

[Eddie.]

Thats the tricky bit. Just careful blending in photoshop, and taking care when taking the photos.

You mean when taking photos, don't let the shots become too different???

for example, the foreground looking like it's daylight and the sky looking like it's at night?

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Yes exactly. It's not as hard as it sounds, but requires a bit of practice and careful reviewing of the photos on site too.