Sunday, April 3, 2011

Tron Legocy


Inspired by
http://gizmodo.com/#!5787259/shooting-challenge-lego

I've kind of done this thing before - back in 1990, some twenty one years ago - ouch.
But back then I didn't have Lightroom or an iPad to help with the cool effects.
I really need to get myself a macro lens, shooting this on 300mm, 2m away is really fiddly - you need to take great care not bump the frame, or even have the frame droop, with a heavy lens you need to lock in a quarter frame higher to compensate for the droop. You also need to turn off the image stabilizer, and auto focus, as they are just going to mess things up with a time lapse shot.
I was going to try some extra effects to get a lego light-cycle in there, but the set up was already a 30sec shot.
And a double exposure was just going to make everything really complicated.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Wingardium Leviosa


This turned out to be simpler than I imagined. Two shots, one with a stand to hold the bike, and one without.
A little GIMP (poor mans photoshop), to airbrush out the stand and voila.
(And a little Lightroom to tweak the color palette)

Inspire by (and too late for)
http://www.facebook.com/ShootingChallenge

Or
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=44149&id=114955518535358
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