Go back at night, set up a 30 odd second exposure & have your model stand very still.
DS 2009/3/24 Larry Colen <[email protected]>: > When I drive home at night I pass a ferris wheel that is all lit up, > and often spinning. Every time I go past I think that I need to use it > in a photo. > > Last night I came up with the idea of silohetting a person or couple > against it, either unlit so that they are dark, or possibly with a > flash. > > At noon, I was reading light science and magic about photographing > glass and they were talking about having a dark background that has > light around the frame. It occurred to me that if I could have the > ferris wheel in the background, with someone sillohuetted in front of > it and something like a wineglass with the ferris wheel providing > colored edge lighting, it might make a fun photo. > > Or it might end up in an epic, but educational, fail. > > Maybe if I ask for advice now, my next post on the subject will be > "how can I do this better" rather than "why was it a total failure". -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
