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Marshland Grass at night
© 2006 starriderrick

A creative digital experiment.
Captured in total darkness. 8 layer modification.

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Photo by: starriderrick
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Date: Fri Sep 15, 2006
Views: 612
Keywords: creative digital
Camera: FinePix 2600

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Other Equipment: hand held
Shutter Speed and Aperture: flash
ISO: 50

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dana m.

Moderator

I know you are not going to believe this...but when I was looking at your gallery earlier this morning (you know how your eye kinda skips ahead to other pics before you are ready to look at them), well the phone rang and I saw this one out of the corner of my eye and went "Oh wow". Talk about a run on sentence. Anyway...I really, really like it. Very experimental and you inspire me to try new things (like I know how to do this stuff..ha)

#1 Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:18am

michael buchanan

Senior Member

AWESOME DUDE!!!!! really really hard to believe that it was taken in total darkness but it really holds together well and what i really like is that you got some color out of it too! i also really like that secondary strand of grasses behind the initial ones. very cool and very worth while to get a photo like this from darkness. i used to experiment alot with high speed infrared film and couldn't wait to get the film back...taking night pictures has been a favorite of mine for years. never know what you'll end up with but i was working a shift that allowed me more night time opps than daytime for awhile and it's fun to be up and about when no one else is stirring. keep it up rick you are an INSPIRATION!!!

in the words of a world famous philospher:
"I yam what i yam and that's all what i yam!"

#2 Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:41pm

starriderrick

photo gallery Mod.

THANK YOU.I love the way this came out.I was thinking.:idea:
I'll share a secret with you both.

I used the red eye flash mode.This fires the flash 2 times as the shutter opens.That is why there are foreground and background grasses.lots of detail.If you blow out the subject with flash,total darkness [as I did].The result is you start out with a overexposed blown out mess of spagetti. Then I invert the capture,perform 7 layers of modifications.(a trade secret) haha! This is what you get. good luck,I expect to see night projects from you both

.Remember.Red eye flash mode,crank up the [EV] exposure value to max.

#3 Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:10am

dana m.

Moderator

Ha, ha...you little tease you. You know very well I have no idea how to do this stuff and it looks like wayyyyyyyy to much technical knowledge and thought for me to even attempt. Now I do agree that I will step outside at night and "take a few"...but thats pretty much the extent of it....haa...you are cracking me up.

#4 Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:19am

gary shaw

Senior Member

Very simplistic. Great Capture.

#5 Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:52pm

drg

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Rick,

Cool image and technique for that camera. One of my favorites of yours yet! Bet you can hardly wait for that new Nikon?

CDPrice 'drg'
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#6 Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:55am

dana m.

Moderator

Congrats Rick....you also deserve it. I can only imagine what you will come up with next.

#7 Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:39am

michael buchanan

Senior Member

aha!! good idea rick!! red eye flash mode is my next assignment for sure.....congrats on the POTD!!! WELL DESERVED!!

in the words of a world famous philospher:
"I yam what i yam and that's all what i yam!"

#8 Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:33pm

starriderrick

photo gallery Mod.

GEE Whiz

It is you... ALL... who inspire me.

I am humbled by the honor,will carry the Photo of the day torch for a day... :idea:

This site is... Best of the Best.Why ? THE PEOPLE !

b.t.w. "D DAY" IS Sept.21st "D" as in... Deighty
Now... I am a DSLR rookie

#9 Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:06am

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