Alien in the Marsh
Day 2 of learning how to use a DSLR by myself. With the absence of pin lights (like a string of led christmas lights with different points of light) I tried using a candle and a mottled glass bowl so light would refract and break into points. It’s upside down in the background near the feet. I’ll have to try this bokeh effect again in the future, with BOTH pin lights AND transparent glass bowls. The more textures in the glass, the better, it seems!
With the same camera settings and lighting setup, I didn’t want to have to adjust anything in Photoshop, so this picture looks different from the previous post only because I had The Boy stand behind everything holding a black cloth up so light wouldn’t bounce off the white wall. If you edit this photo under Shadow/Highlights, you’d be able to make him out and his I <3 NY shirt!
ps. I fiddled around some more and got the lights to turn blurry and round with enough zooming ( this will probably not work on bigger subjects), in that manner that is so popular on tumblr and weheartit. My model is so pretty.
S’nothing fancy though. Here’s what’s really in the background:
A dead/dying emergency lamp, half of The Boy’s orange LED shoelaces, 3 candles of different sizes, an upside down clear glass bowl, and a portable mirror.
