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Table of Contents

Forward from the Author.................................................................................................................7

Preliminaries....................................................................................................................................8

Camera Bodies............................................................................................................................8

Lenses..........................................................................................................................................9

Tripods........................................................................................................................................9

Photoshop..................................................................................................................................10

Long Exposure Effects and Light Painting

Setting the Shutter speed......................................................................................................12

Setting the Aperture..............................................................................................................14

Setting the ISO.....................................................................................................................15

Setting the White Balance....................................................................................................16

Generic Common Settings for Light Paintings:...................................................................17

Fundamental Lights and Techniques..............................................................................................18

Maglights and LEDs.................................................................................................................18

Maglight Review..................................................................................................................18

Key chain LED Review........................................................................................................19

The Two Styles..........................................................................................................................20

Light Painting.......................................................................................................................20

Light Drawing......................................................................................................................20

Light Painting............................................................................................................................21

Using The Fiber Optic Adapter............................................................................................22

Light Drawing...........................................................................................................................23

Physiograms.........................................................................................................................28

Other Light Sources.......................................................................................................................29

RGB LED Strips.......................................................................................................................29

Laser Pens.................................................................................................................................30

Fiber Optics...............................................................................................................................32

Glow Sticks and Cathodes........................................................................................................34

Glow in the Dark Paint..............................................................................................................34

Pop-Up Flashes and Off-Camera Flashes.................................................................................35

Flash Gels.............................................................................................................................36

Flash Stencils............................................................................................................................37

The Classic Stencil Cut-out Method.....................................................................................37

The Printer Method...............................................................................................................38

City Lights.................................................................................................................................41

Fire............................................................................................................................................43

Fire Dancing!........................................................................................................................43

Sparks...................................................................................................................................45

Sparklers...............................................................................................................................45

Steel Wool (by Chris Reynolds)...........................................................................................47

EL Wire.....................................................................................................................................50

iPhone and iPad Apps................................................................................................................51

Light Painting Techniques.............................................................................................................52

Inverting....................................................................................................................................52

Camera tossing and abstracts....................................................................................................52

Lights on wheels and hoops......................................................................................................52

Reflections and mirroring.........................................................................................................53

Writing Text...............................................................................................................................54

Combining different lights........................................................................................................55

Creating Orbs............................................................................................................................56

Creating Domes.........................................................................................................................57

Blending Multiple Exposures....................................................................................................58

Light Stitching (Unofficial term)..........................................................................................59

Light Painting Perfect Circles (by Dennis Calvert)..................................................................61

Textures.....................................................................................................................................62

Lightning........................................................................................................................................65

Motion Blur....................................................................................................................................66

Using Filters to Increase Shutter-speed Duration.....................................................................68

Blurring Waterfalls and Beaches with Long Exposure........................................................68

Blurring Clouds with Long Exposure...................................................................................71

Blurring People.....................................................................................................................72

Long Exposure + Square Format..........................................................................................72

Star Trails.......................................................................................................................................73

Going Past 30 Second Exposure Times....................................................................................74

Using an Interval Timer Shooting mode (or an Intervalometer)..........................................74

Using a Remote to take Star Trails.......................................................................................74

Using a Cable Release..........................................................................................................74

Using a Rubber Band............................................................................................................75

Camera Settings for Star Trails Photos.................................................................................75

The Multiple Exposure Method................................................................................................76

Secret Star Trail Tricks..............................................................................................................76

Other fun long exposures...............................................................................................................79

Solargraphy...........................................................................................................................82

Trick Photography and Special Effects

In-Camera Illusions........................................................................................................................85

Forced Perspective....................................................................................................................85

Shadow Heart............................................................................................................................87

Unscrewed Light Bulb Trick.....................................................................................................87

Reflections in Animal Eyes.......................................................................................................87

Monitor Droste..........................................................................................................................88

Reaching into the Monitor........................................................................................................88

Transparent Screen....................................................................................................................89

Without Photoshop...............................................................................................................89

With Photoshop....................................................................................................................89

Jowlers.......................................................................................................................................89

Rotated Perspective...................................................................................................................90

Shaped Bokeh............................................................................................................................91

Double Exposures.....................................................................................................................93

The Orton Effect...................................................................................................................94

Birefringence.............................................................................................................................95

Upside-Down Reflections.........................................................................................................96

HDR Photography..........................................................................................................................97

Taking the HDR Photograph.....................................................................................................99

Post-Processing in Photomatix................................................................................................100

Post-Processing using “Merge to HDR Pro” in Photoshop CS5.............................................101

Manually Tone-Mapping Images............................................................................................102

Infrared Photography...................................................................................................................105

Why Take Infrared (IR) Photos?.............................................................................................106

Can my camera take IR photos?..............................................................................................106

Taking Infrared Photos Using the Hoya R72 Filter.................................................................108

White Balance and Color Correction for Infrared Photography........................................109

Channel-Swapping in Photoshop........................................................................................110

IR Examples Chart.............................................................................................................111

360X180 Planet Panoramas.........................................................................................................115

Taking Hand-Held 360 Degree Panoramas.............................................................................117

Zenith and Nadirs...............................................................................................................117

Using Hugin to Stitch 360x180 Panoramas............................................................................118

Inside the Preview window.....................................................................................................119

Stitching HDR Images (optional)............................................................................................120

Tone-mapping Before the Stitch.........................................................................................120

Tone-mapping the Entire Panorama ..................................................................................120

Creating Interactive Panoramas..............................................................................................121

Hugin Tutorials........................................................................................................................121

Perfecting The Stitch using Panoramic Tripod Heads............................................................122

Panoramic Tripod Heads....................................................................................................124

Manipulating Panoramas in Flexify (optional but recommended).........................................125

Creative 360x180 Compositions.............................................................................................128

Working with Trees............................................................................................................128

Doubling Up.......................................................................................................................130

People and 360x180 Panoramas.........................................................................................131

Multiplicity and 360x180 Panoramas.................................................................................131

Pseudo Planets.........................................................................................................................134

The Droste Effect.........................................................................................................................135

Using the Filter Plug-In...........................................................................................................135

The “ Pixel Bender+Droste.pbk” Method..........................................................................136

Choosing The Right Image and Creative Compositions.........................................................137

Spiral Planets...........................................................................................................................140

More Creative Applications....................................................................................................142

Time-Displacement Photography via Scanner.............................................................................143

The Harris Shutter Effect.............................................................................................................144

Photoshop Projects

Introduction to Layer Masks and Blending Modes......................................................................146

Head in the Pot........................................................................................................................147

Shadow Illusion.......................................................................................................................150

Building Window....................................................................................................................151

Bug-Eyed.................................................................................................................................151

Escaping the TV......................................................................................................................152

“Insomnia”..............................................................................................................................153

Multiplicity Photography.............................................................................................................154

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