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Always Wineing Away - Light Painting
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You're getting a dab hand at this painting malarky...nice clean image.
my only niggle, I would've cloned out the green grape stalk, very picky I know - sorry
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my only niggle, I would've cloned out the green grape stalk, very picky I know - sorry
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Don't worry about being picky, as I'm like that with my photo's anyway
I did think about taking it out but decided to keep it in as it's a bunch of grapes so it's natural that it's there but I did spend some time cleaning out dead pixels etc I'm pleased that you like it Matt
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It possibly is a little tight but I didn't have that much space to work with
but I'm pleased you like it Excellent quality image Matt.
you must have the patience of a saint.
Thank you, it's a nice technique and so much better than straight forward flash photography, it seems to give the images an almost 3D quality
I'm pleased that you like it, as to patience this shot took all of 15 minutes inclusive of PP so not that bad, some of my images take several hours to take Such as THIS one that took 2 hours to take plus post production
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Really like this Matt, nice composition, and as you said, its like a 3d effect
What did you use to light paint with Matt?
Thanks Scott, All the lighting is done with a standard torch, I use a small maglight a 2xAA battery type I'm pleased that you like it
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Don't know how this one passed me bye Matt - you're getting plenty of mileage out of those grapes
Overall I like the shot, but again, I'm going to harp on about the background - same comments as the fruitbowl TBH - which does at least mean if you rig a small "room set" it'll get used and re-used plenty
Also - I think the bottle gets slightly lost from the shoulders and neck - the body is bright - presumably light reflecting from the back label of the bottle, but by the neck it's almost blended away until the foil kicks in. Not sure, but can you get light shining up through the bottle ? Maybe using a lightbox under the bottle, with black card base that has a hole in it, just slightly smaller than the diameter of the bottle. Then "blip" the lightbox on and off to light the bottle up... Not sure if it'd work, but it might be worth an experiment :shrug:
Overall I like the shot, but again, I'm going to harp on about the background - same comments as the fruitbowl TBH - which does at least mean if you rig a small "room set" it'll get used and re-used plenty
Also - I think the bottle gets slightly lost from the shoulders and neck - the body is bright - presumably light reflecting from the back label of the bottle, but by the neck it's almost blended away until the foil kicks in. Not sure, but can you get light shining up through the bottle ? Maybe using a lightbox under the bottle, with black card base that has a hole in it, just slightly smaller than the diameter of the bottle. Then "blip" the lightbox on and off to light the bottle up... Not sure if it'd work, but it might be worth an experiment :shrug:
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Don't know how this one passed me bye Matt - you're getting plenty of mileage out of those grapes
Overall I like the shot, but again, I'm going to harp on about the background - same comments as the fruitbowl TBH - which does at least mean if you rig a small "room set" it'll get used and re-used plenty
Also - I think the bottle gets slightly lost from the shoulders and neck - the body is bright - presumably light reflecting from the back label of the bottle, but by the neck it's almost blended away until the foil kicks in. Not sure, but can you get light shining up through the bottle ? Maybe using a lightbox under the bottle, with black card base that has a hole in it, just slightly smaller than the diameter of the bottle. Then "blip" the lightbox on and off to light the bottle up... Not sure if it'd work, but it might be worth an experiment :shrug:
Now you've said about that, I think I have a small LED set that will fit under the bottle witout a issue and will light it up wonderfully
I smell a reshoot coming, I will have to get some more grapes though as I've ate them 
I see where your coming from with the having the background nice and Dark I may have to try it out keeping the BG dark, I think the little bit of light on the BG help to aid the 3D effect, but maybe I'm wrong
I can see me buiding a smallish rig to play with I have a very large garage to fill up with a set up
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Really like this image Matt, agree with the comment on the lighting towards the top of the bottle and I would love to see it with no/less spill on the background if possible
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bensambrook said:Really like this image Matt, agree with the comment on the lighting towards the top of the bottle and I would love to see it with no/less spill on the background if possible
I've got a couple of ideas in relation to alterations to the lighting to hopefully improve the image
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I try an push my creativity in this challenge, it's great to know that others are also enjoying it
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Sorry, I missed your reply to this thread
now that you've pointed that out it's somewhat bugging me, I'll have to have a look a cleaning it up at some point Matt
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