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[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] Trick Photography and Special Effects – Copyright October 2011 Evan Sharboneau – Page 1 Legal Copyright © 2011 Evan Sharboneau. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of its creator This ebook is for personal use only. Do not reproduce, resell, and/or repackage this ebook in any way. All photographs contained in this ebook are copyrighted by the original photographer(s) and have been used with permission or are protected by a Creative Commons License. All images are used for reference purposes only. The author has made every reasonable attempt to achieve accuracy of the content in this ebook, and assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions. 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All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Adobe product box shot(s) reprinted with permission from Adobe Systems Incorporated. This e-book contains affiliate links. This means that if you purchase a certain product after clicking on one of the links in the e-book, the author may receive a small commission. Contents contained in this ebook may be changed, revised, and updated at any time. Front cover photograph by Dennis Calvert. Trick Photography and Special Effects – Copyright October 2011 Evan Sharboneau – Page 2 Hey there! Before we start, just in case you get tired of reading or perhaps get addicted to the stuff in this e-book and want more, remember that the new Trick Photography and Special Effects complimentary video series is now available 8+ hours of visual, real-time, step-by-step video content! > > < < Trick Photography and Special Effects – Copyright October 2011 Evan Sharboneau – Page 3 Table of Contents Forward from the Author....................................................................................................8 Preliminaries......................................................................................................................9 Camera Bodies..............................................................................................................9 Lenses.........................................................................................................................10 Tripods.........................................................................................................................10 Photoshop....................................................................................................................11 Long Exposure Effects and Light Painting .........................................13 Setting the Shutter Speed.......................................................................................13 Setting the Aperture.................................................................................................16 Setting the ISO........................................................................................................18 Setting the White Balance.......................................................................................19 Generic Common Settings for Light Paintings:.......................................................20 Fundamental Lights and Techniques...............................................................................21 Flashlights and LEDs...................................................................................................21 Maglite M2A016 Review.........................................................................................21 Using The Fiber Optic Adapter................................................................................22 Key chain LED Review............................................................................................23 The Two Styles............................................................................................................25 Light Drawing...............................................................................................................27 Physiograms............................................................................................................32 Other Light Sources.........................................................................................................34 LED Strips....................................................................................................................34 Bayco Work Lights.......................................................................................................37 Fairy Lights..................................................................................................................41 Squiggles.................................................................................................................41 Solid Orbs................................................................................................................43 Hollow Orbs.............................................................................................................44 Hula Hoop Orbs.......................................................................................................47 Laser Pens...................................................................................................................48 Fiber Optics.................................................................................................................53 Cathodes.....................................................................................................................56 Glow Sticks..................................................................................................................62 Glow in the Dark Paint.................................................................................................63 Pop-Up Flashes and Off-Camera Flashes..................................................................64 Pop-Up Flashes.......................................................................................................64 Off-Camera Flashes................................................................................................65 Wireless Triggering..................................................................................................66 Flash Gels...............................................................................................................66 Flash Stencils..............................................................................................................72 City Lights....................................................................................................................76 Fire...............................................................................................................................78 Fire Dancing!...........................................................................................................78 Sparks.....................................................................................................................83 Sparklers.................................................................................................................84 Steel Wool (by Chris Reynolds)..............................................................................88 EL Wire........................................................................................................................92 iPhone, iPad, and Android Apps..................................................................................94 Trick Photography and Special Effects – Copyright October 2011 Evan Sharboneau – Page 4 Light Painting Techniques................................................................................................95 Inverting.......................................................................................................................95 Camera tossing and abstracts.....................................................................................95 Lights on wheels and hoops........................................................................................95 Reflections and mirroring.............................................................................................96 Writing Text..................................................................................................................97 Combining different lights............................................................................................98 Domes.........................................................................................................................99 Blending Multiple Exposures.....................................................................................100 Light Stitching (Unofficial term).............................................................................101 Light Painting Perfect Circles (by Dennis Calvert)....................................................103 Textures.....................................................................................................................104 Lightning........................................................................................................................106 Motion Blur.....................................................................................................................107 Using Filters to Increase Shutter-speed Duration.....................................................109 Blurring Waterfalls and Beaches with Long Exposure..........................................109 Blurring Clouds with Long Exposure.....................................................................112 Blurring People......................................................................................................113 Long Exposure + Square Format..........................................................................113 Star Trails.......................................................................................................................114 Camera Settings for Star Trails Photos.................................................................115 Taking the Exposure(s)..............................................................................................116 The only downside to taking multiple exposures is that there will be a bunch of tiny little gaps 1-2 pixels wide throughout your entire star trail due to the slight delay time between the exposures. Even though the gaps can only really be seen when you zoom in on the picture to 100%, there is a software program that can automatically fill in all the gaps for you - this will be discussed later. ...................117 Combining The Exposures........................................................................................118 Secret Star Trail Tricks...............................................................................................118 Other fun long exposures..............................................................................................122 Solargraphy...........................................................................................................125 Trick Photography and Special Effects In-Camera Illusions........................................................................................................128 Forced Perspective....................................................................................................128 Shadow Heart............................................................................................................130 Unscrewed Light Bulb Trick...................................................................................131 Reflections in Animal Eyes........................................................................................132 Monitor Droste...........................................................................................................133 Reaching into the Monitor..........................................................................................134 Transparent Screen...................................................................................................135 Without Photoshop................................................................................................135 With Photoshop.....................................................................................................135 Jowlers.......................................................................................................................136 Rotated Perspective..................................................................................................137 Upside-Down Reflections......................................................................................139 High-Speed Photography..............................................................................................142 The Camera...............................................................................................................142 The Controller............................................................................................................142 Trick Photography and Special Effects – Copyright October 2011 Evan Sharboneau – Page 5 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |