This was taken in a bathroom, upstairs. You never know where these guys will pop up. It's been hard getting a good picture today, I like this one, but it's not my best. We've been busy like mad cleaning for my Grandparent's arrival. I took this picture as part of a little contest between Steph and I to see who could come up with more intriguing way to incorporate light into a picture. You can see her entry in this post on her photoblog.
So you can get an idea of what i did to get the result, here is the step-by-step. I took a gnome I found at the dump Saturday, brought him to the bathroom upstairs and propped him forward on my lens cap. He is now leaning forward mostly toward the camera, then I took my modded disposable camera and fired of a flash as my camera shot the picture. This produced one picture with the gnome lit up and the mouth wash bottle a little less lit up. Then took another picture with the bathroom light on above, for 1 second. I combined the two in photoshop to get the background detail as well as a nicely lit evil-looking face. Then the usual: adjusted layers, levels, colors, and resized it. vuahla!!! there it is!
Monday, June 30, 2008
Day 171: Sneaky Gnome
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Wow you took a lot of time on that! Editing and photoshopping and gnomes, oh my! Sounds like you had a party in the bathroom...Oh, and I have more lighting pictures, I'll put em up, they're not the best, but i'll put them on my other blog (there's a link for it...) Nice pic! and i didn't mean to copy you! i just thought- hey, cool, it looks like im holding light! lol
This is one creepy gnome- his hat, the mischievous arch of his eyebrows, the way he has no upper lip... and the lighting just enhances these features. Much to Steph's chagrin, this picture is a winner in my book.
creepy gnomes.....
Guess it's a matter of perspective, but that little gnome guy doesn't look evil. He might be a little playfully irresponsible, but not a true trouble maker. Nice use of lighting techniques and good description of how you got there.
This gnome scares me steve, he really really does. :(
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