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Light Show

            An edit from last night’s play around with lightbulbs and sparklers. 

The bulb is an antique effect led type that we had left over from the kitchen light fittings. It’s held in place on a piece of black perspex by a small piece of blutac. The perspex created the reflection in last night’s shot but not in this one ;) A small sparkler was placed directly behind the bulb and angled towards it to rain some sparks down over the bulb. My first few attempts were ok but I just wasn’t getting any definition in the bulb and the cap was completely in shadow. So I introduced a 24” softbox to the right and angled at 45° down towards the subject. Equipped with a Yongnuo YN560IV, power set to 1/64 and at 24mm zoom.  An A0 size piece of white foamboard was propped up on the left side and rested on the softbox, effectively creating a tent over the bulb and sparkler. Playing around with exposure times between 1 and 3 secs gave me some really nice spark trails and the burst of rear curtain flash then exposed the bulb perfectly. All taken in a dark room to minimise ambient light.

As you can probably tell this is a composite of 3 separate images. However each individual bulb shot is a single exposure. I was going to try and get the sparks sharper by compositing different images at different focus distances but that was just too much faff! On a technical note I used the blend mode ‘Lighten’ in PS for the 3 images This has the effect of keeping the lighter pixels in all the selected layers hence they overlap. The darker ones just get replaced.

Taken on: November 4, 2020

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Camera: Nikon D850, f/11.0, 1.6 sec, 105mm, ISO 64 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D850
Lens:	105.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	1.6
Focal Length:	105mm
ISO:	64
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 22.0 (Windows)
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