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How To Make a Stone Sphere (2 of 4)


Image by cobalt123
I always wondered how stone spheres are made, so this is a series of 4 demonstration photos I took at the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum in Phoenix last week.

53.365 – Quadruple How-to!


Image by Josh Liba
Check it out on the Blog!

You can do all the techniques used in this picture! Try it out :

How to: :
-Draw with Light
-Get ‘starbursts’ in your picture.
-Clone people
-Appear transparent (w/o photoshop layers/opacity)

-Draw with Light::
In a darker place (Room, Nighttime) Set your camera to manual mode, choose a long shutter speed (try 10-30 seconds) and a small aperture (f/11 or higher) Have a bright flashlight. Start the exposure, and draw away! Only the light will shoe up. In the picture above, I walked along the path, shining the light on and off into the camera as I moved farther away on both sides of the walkway.

-Get Starbursts: :
When you choose a high aperture number (small opening) the light has to squeeze through the small hole, resulting in a starburst. The star usually has as many points as your lens has aperture blades. This only works on points of light.

-Clone People::
a) In Camera: Some DSLRs have option for "double exposure." Set it to ‘ON’ and set ‘Auto Gain’ so that it adds one picture to the next. Set camera on tripod, and activate by remote or timer. Take a picture in one position, then without moving the camera, move to another position and take the second picture. Your double exposure will have two of you!

b) In Photoshop: Set up camera on tripod and take pictures standing in multiple places of the scene. In photoshop, you can put the two or more pictures together as layers, and then ‘erase’ yourself into the picture. You can google ‘photoshop clone portrait’ for more. Or PM me.

-Appear Transparent (w/o Photoshop):
Preferrably, you should have a strobe for this. It will work with the pop up flash too though. Set your camera flash to ‘second curtain’ or ‘rear curtain.’ This means flash will fire right before the aperture closes, rather than right when it opens. Set the camera up for a long exposure (see settings for ‘draw with light’ above) and then start the exposure. Right before the camera finishes it’s exposure, walk into the frame and pose! The camera will flash before it closes, and you will appear in frame as a see-through person!

Strobist:
Nikon D90+Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 @ f/11 ISO200 30sec
CLS Triggered SB-600 bottom left, pointed up at face

Day 88: How To Do A Self Portrait The Alice Way


Image by Alice Harold
Recently, a couple of people have commented asking me how I take such great self portraits. Firstly, I’m flattered, because I didn’t think they were particularly that good, and secondly, this is how I do it:

1) Search the house for a new/original/exciting/artyfarty place to take a picture (reflective surface a bonus)
2) Wish I hadn’t just squeezed that spot
3) Make sure my hair is in some sort of post-work order
4) Take roughly 649 photographs of myself in the same pose. Agonize that they all look terible on the LCD
5) Upload photographs onto my laptop, choose to use the first picture that I took
6) Cringe when I re-discover 15,982 unused photos of myself weeks later