Bearing Down

This is my new Facebook “cover” photo. I should probably retire this as a subject, but I just cant quit you, Bear Muffler! I gelled a couple Canon 430s with Rosco gel “Canary Yellow” and put them around behind the car. I can’t find my radio transmitters at the moment so I used the ST-E2 — and since that’s IR, I needed line-of-sight to the flashes. Else, I could have hidden the lights behind the wheels. But, I didn’t mind the little sparkly lights on the ground in the end. This is actually seven different exposures. I imported them into Photoshop, “load files into stack”, “automatically align”, then set the blending mode on each layer to “Lighter Color.” The process takes about sixty seconds.

For the precise, the dimensions of the Facebook cover photo need to be 830 by 315 in pixels.

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3 Responses

1. DKO says:

   6 February, 2012 at 6:36 pm

   Never stop!

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   • MickO says:

     6 February, 2012 at 8:18 pm

     Thanks DKO!

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2. shell says:

   24 June, 2012 at 2:13 am

   OK, a LOT of work but the end result is totally worth it! The light is beautiful.

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