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Pine Cone Watching the Moon

PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 6:13 am
by Joe_Kostoss
While preparing to take a shot of the night sky and water at Jinhae Bay, I found this lone pine cone lying on the deck; I moved it to the rail to allow it to get a better view of the moonset.

This is a 30 second time exposure with the camera on a tripod and the exposure manually set for the sky. While the lens was open, I tried my hand at light painting by holding my speed light and walking around setting it off several locations to light the deck, the rails and the trees. The moon was in the sky, but was setting fast and was down behind the mountain when I finally captured this right shot. I used a moon shaped brush that I had previously downloaded as a part of an eye retouching brush set to bring it back into view.

http://www.prestophoto.com/photos/image/3647162

Re: Pine Cone Watching the Moon

PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:23 am
by Russinator
Very clever Joe and a great shot.

Re: Pine Cone Watching the Moon

PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:28 pm
by Joe_Kostoss
Thanks Russ, Glad you like it.

Re: Pine Cone Watching the Moon

PostPosted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:36 pm
by ladybug
Joe your perspective on things are as impressive as this photo. Fantastic.

Re: Pine Cone Watching the Moon

PostPosted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:08 pm
by Rusty
That's a wonderful result, Joe.
You never really know what's going to happen when painting with light. I'm going to give you credit for having it very carefully planned out!

Rusty

Re: Pine Cone Watching the Moon

PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:35 am
by Joe_Kostoss
Thank you Judy. I described this image to a friend that it was "A lonely pine cone sitting on a wooden deck rail watching the moon setting over Jinhae Bay". Her response was that she could feel the loneliness because her new husband was away on business.

Rusty, not knowing what was going to happen is where the fun is. It took several trys with painting and with adjusting the tripod to get this shot.