The Thinker | Saturday Jan 31, 2009
I decided to go downtown Philly one night to shoot some night scenes, no sooner had I got there it started snowing quite heavily. This is all I got. Some of you may recognize the shadow of the statue, Its a rip off of this, trust me, if it were the original it would have been nicked years ago.
I got a few questions on how I shot yesterdays photo. Shooting incense smoke is nothing new and here is a link to Sensitive Light, the definitive guide on how to do it. However, I wanted to do something a little different and get a softer, smooth look. So I shot the scene at f2.8 to get some decent blur. As I was using a wide open aperture I needed to shoot at night in my basement with a black cloth background and a GOBO'd light camera right. I then made a CocoPop 8 inch snoot for a flash placed camera left.
Then shoot 200 photos and adjust the one you like in ACR/Lightroom. I adjusted the color temp to get the blue and adjusted the lights and shadows to taste.
Galleries: Black and White
- Canon
- Canon EOS 5D
- F9.5
- 3 sec
- 22.0 mm
- 100
- -2
- Aperture priority
- Flash did not fire, auto
- Multi-segment
Posted by Olivier Jules on January 31, 2009 at 06:20 PM EST #