When I accidentally stumbled on warehouse full of guys carving wooden carousel animals (see May 18 post), I felt completely naked with only an 80-200 lens on my Nikon D3. Here I was in the middle of a fantastic situation with only a single big non-image-stabilized lens, no strobe, no tripod. What to do?
Shoot, you dummy. Make your body a tripod and light it with Photoshop later.
I wanted atmosphere around the carver.
So in Photoshop CS3, I first dinked around with Filter>Render>Lighting Effects. But that wasn't enough.
Then with the pen tool, I made a selection to darken everything except the shaft of light.
Which do you like better?
2 comments:
Janis,
Thanks for the PhotoShop mini tutorial. My comment would be to widen the shaft slightly.
Have you heard of Topaz. It is a image altering software. I have used it on some of my photos. Very cool.
Jeff Cameron
Jeff,
Never tried Topaz. Will check it out. Thank you.
janis
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