Bruce Walker wrote:
What strikes me in all these shots is that the light on the tree
doesn't relate back to the sign in any of them. There's just no
connection, and they just don't work for me. The darkest tree ones
_almost_ do, which leads to ...
Thanks, that's valuable feedback.
I would try one more thing. Try an HDR bracketing where at one end you
expose for the neon light reflected from the tree, if you can. The
sign will be hopelessly blown out, but that can be masked or the HDR
s/w will eliminate it.
The trees are far enough from the sign that there is no visible light
from the sign on them.
It's possible that other ambient light (street lamp?) washes the neon
out, in which case this will fail.
Completely
If it works the tree will be largely a silhouette rim-lit with neon colour.
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote:
Last night I noticed the nice saturation of the sign at the local movie
theater. I also like the contrast with one of the trees in the parking lot.
Unfortunately the street lights didn't light the tree well enough to get
quite the effect I wanted, but I tried various things, including multiple
shots for HDR, and using a flash to illuminate the tree and not the sign.
I think that what I'm going to need to do is to get some strobes set up to
the side of the tree, close but out of the frame, so that I can bring up the
illumination on the tree to more closely match the sign, but not have the
flat lighting of the flash mounted in the shoe.
I'm interested in feedback as to what worked in these various attempts, what
didn't, what I might try, or whether this shot is merely a clever idea
without actually being a good idea.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157677439640954
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