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Rainbow Glassware
Hi Steve,
I am new to still life and light painting and learned how to do them including this image from Lee Varis. With about four people in a group at our class, we arranged a still life on a table that had been covered and a backing had been hung ending up with about six arrangements. That is why you may see several photos that are just about alike. We then each set up our camera on a tripod with a remote switch if we had one. I set my camera to 6 seconds at f/16 and 100 ISO. When each group was ready at a table, the lights were turned off and someone painted the scene with a flash light. The lights were then turned on and we moved to another table. We only needed about six shots of each still life but were so eager we took about sixteen. (The object is to use the best parts of each photo to make one great image.) However, for this photo, I took three shots that had different lighting, turned them into grayscale in Photoshop (Image, Mode, Grayscale). Next, I clicked on just one and went to Channels. In the Channels Menu I selected Merge Channels, and in the box that came up, I selected RGB for the Mode that let me specify which photo I wanted to use for the red, green and blue channels. ( You can keep switching to try different looks by clicking on Split Channels in the Channels Menu.) Then I added noise and motion blur for the background. Hope you aren’t sorry you asked. Sandy
Rainbow Glassware
Hi Steve,
I am new to still life and light painting and learned how to do them including this image from Lee Varis. With about four people in a group at our class, we arranged a still life on a table that had been covered and a backing had been hung ending up with about six arrangements. That is why you may see several photos that are just about alike. We then each set up our camera on a tripod with a remote switch if we had one. I set my camera to 6 seconds at f/16 and 100 ISO. When each group was ready at a table, the lights were turned off and someone painted the scene with a flash light. The lights were then turned on and we moved to another table. We only needed about six shots of each still life but were so eager we took about sixteen. (The object is to use the best parts of each photo to make one great image.) However, for this photo, I took three shots that had different lighting, turned them into grayscale in Photoshop (Image, Mode, Grayscale). Next, I clicked on just one and went to Channels. In the Channels Menu I selected Merge Channels, and in the box that came up, I selected RGB for the Mode that let me specify which photo I wanted to use for the red, green and blue channels. ( You can keep switching to try different looks by clicking on Split Channels in the Channels Menu.) Then I added noise and motion blur for the background. Hope you aren’t sorry you asked. Sandy