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Photographer:Kevin Daniels
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Photographer: David Zeck
For this photo, I of course had to use a tripod, and this time had people make circles with the glow sticks. I waited until just after the sun went down to get those pretty colors in the sky at twilight, and just captured the shapes made in 15 seconds. I also wanted there to be environmental depth as far as the eyes not just being fixated on the shapes in the foreground, but also being led back into the horizon and the colors of the sky, so I used a high F number.
Post processing: For this one, I slightly bumped up the saturation and exposure to give even more color to the color of the sky, and make the neon lights given off by the glow sticks pop and be even brighter. I also took the advice of cropping out the tree on the right in the frame, and lowered the sharpness in select places to take out noise. I also attempted removing all of the hot pixels that I could find.
On one side, the circles are really smooth and "no nonsense," representing logic. The circles on the right represent emotion, and they're a little more wild and done with artistic liberty. Not only did lowering the sharpness take out noise, but I like the more out of focus look; it increases the ethereal, dreamy feel of the shot. I included this because I love light writing and long exposure in general - it fascinates me that this is how cameras record the movement of light. I also really love it because of all the different colors and the fact that it was taken at the most elusive part of the day, twilight.