Farkled
Fire & Ice
Assignment: PCA49 - Fire and Ice
Deadline: December 14, 2008
Image tag: pca49
From: Parsleycat
Mission:
This is for images which convey feelings of both warmth/heat and cold/coolness at the same time. This can be done though careful composition, color schemes and/or subject matter. For example, you could have actual imagery of flames and ice, all the way to just hot and cool colors in the same pic...or any combination.
WIT:
My original plan was to use a candle to back light the ornament. Problem # 1: No candles of the right height with a visible flame. So I grabbed this candle. Problem # 2: The lighter that I use for the BBQ wouldn't work. So I tear the house apart looking for matches. No matches. Muttering imprecations and impolite words, I grab the lighter again. Got it to work enough to light the candle. Problem # 3: Blasted candle doesn't produce much flame. After more impolite words, I grabbed my handy dandy LED flashlight and wound up illuminating the scene as you see here.
To set the exposure, I put the camera in aperture mode and took a shot - noting the shutter time. Then I put the camera in shutter mode and adjusted the time to half because I wanted darker than 18% gray. Some brackets around that and voila! The hardest part of the actual exposure was getting the tripod adjusted. Just the normal fiddles in ACR.
Fire & Ice
Assignment: PCA49 - Fire and Ice
Deadline: December 14, 2008
Image tag: pca49
From: Parsleycat
Mission:
This is for images which convey feelings of both warmth/heat and cold/coolness at the same time. This can be done though careful composition, color schemes and/or subject matter. For example, you could have actual imagery of flames and ice, all the way to just hot and cool colors in the same pic...or any combination.
WIT:
My original plan was to use a candle to back light the ornament. Problem # 1: No candles of the right height with a visible flame. So I grabbed this candle. Problem # 2: The lighter that I use for the BBQ wouldn't work. So I tear the house apart looking for matches. No matches. Muttering imprecations and impolite words, I grab the lighter again. Got it to work enough to light the candle. Problem # 3: Blasted candle doesn't produce much flame. After more impolite words, I grabbed my handy dandy LED flashlight and wound up illuminating the scene as you see here.
To set the exposure, I put the camera in aperture mode and took a shot - noting the shutter time. Then I put the camera in shutter mode and adjusted the time to half because I wanted darker than 18% gray. Some brackets around that and voila! The hardest part of the actual exposure was getting the tripod adjusted. Just the normal fiddles in ACR.