ok, this was slightly more difficult than some that i've done over the past month... and i'm not 100% pleased with the final outcome... but i suppose I never really am 100% happy. i always see something i could fix or do better next time...
alright, 'nough bitchin...
so, i decided on this shot earlier today and decided that i didn't have a powerful enough flashlight (that worked) to be able to accomplish what i had in my head. so i headed down to lowes and picked up a 2 million candlelight power flashlight and came home to take the shot.
I had the camera tripod mounted and and started the shot with the remote. ran into the shed and covered the front door with a heavy blanket, then broke out the flashlight and started painting the windows. then i climbed up into the attic (no easy feat, mind you) and then did a couple of poses up there with the flashlight, to make me look like i was trying to get out through the attic.
now, climbed back down, did some more painting on the windows and then pulled the blanket off the door. now, i take off my heavy black jacket and run out the door, jump off the deck while stopping the exposure with my remote (check the right hand)... the rear flash freezes me in the frame.
now the downer part... the shed itself is underexposed like crazy... and there isn't much i can do about it... if i properly expose the shed with some spotlights in the first part of the shot, then i disappear into the shed when I am jumping out and the ghosts up top disappear... ugh.
learned a couple of lessons on this one... I hoped that I would not look like a ghost in the final image, but hey, whatever...
then i did some pretty heavy lifting in Apple Aperture (monochrome mixer, exposure adjusting, levels, shadows bumped up, vignetting added)
hope you enjoyed this installment.
the settings:
Nikon D90
Aperture: f/18
ISO: 200
Exposure: bulb... 410.9 seconds
Flash: SB-600, set to +2.7 exposure compensation
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