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If You Go Out to the Barn Tonight . . . You Better Not Go Alone - II
The Swine were up to something.
*Notes:
These shots were taken out in the old barn on the property. I discovered, finally, that 250 feet of extension cord will indeed carry the current necessary to light the interior. I set up 6 lights for this shot varying from 60 watt bulbs to 500 watt halogen work lamps. I don't have any professional lighting equipment so I used what was at hand.
I used a Canon 20D with the 10-22 EF-S lens mounted on a cheap video tripod and alternated between my wife pressing the shutter release and the automatic interval timer.
Post-processing included toning and adjusting the color of the source files, a little retouching, and a lot of masking. I shot each of the "pigs" where you see them which allows me a little room to play with comping them together, but almost always I have to mask each one individually by hand because so far I can't find anyother way to get a clean enough mask when up against such a busy background. Never been real happy with Photoshop's extract filter.
As far as time involved goes. This shot took about 5 hours to set up and light and another couple hours to shoot. I kept filing up my 2GB card and having to run back inside to dump and check the negs. Processing probably took 6 - 8 hours. I admit one of the reasons this shot took so long to process was that it was based on the pig down in front which I really hadn't planned for. The lighting down there was pretty low.
The whole series was really imagined around the 4th frame the rest just sort of grew around it.
If You Go Out to the Barn Tonight . . . You Better Not Go Alone - II
The Swine were up to something.
*Notes:
These shots were taken out in the old barn on the property. I discovered, finally, that 250 feet of extension cord will indeed carry the current necessary to light the interior. I set up 6 lights for this shot varying from 60 watt bulbs to 500 watt halogen work lamps. I don't have any professional lighting equipment so I used what was at hand.
I used a Canon 20D with the 10-22 EF-S lens mounted on a cheap video tripod and alternated between my wife pressing the shutter release and the automatic interval timer.
Post-processing included toning and adjusting the color of the source files, a little retouching, and a lot of masking. I shot each of the "pigs" where you see them which allows me a little room to play with comping them together, but almost always I have to mask each one individually by hand because so far I can't find anyother way to get a clean enough mask when up against such a busy background. Never been real happy with Photoshop's extract filter.
As far as time involved goes. This shot took about 5 hours to set up and light and another couple hours to shoot. I kept filing up my 2GB card and having to run back inside to dump and check the negs. Processing probably took 6 - 8 hours. I admit one of the reasons this shot took so long to process was that it was based on the pig down in front which I really hadn't planned for. The lighting down there was pretty low.
The whole series was really imagined around the 4th frame the rest just sort of grew around it.