Lights on Castle Island

in ntopaz •  5 years ago 

ntopaz-image-0Lights on Castle Island is a lightpainting we made in our home town Capelle aan den IJssel. We wanted to 'highlight' the interesting and historic parts of our town.

As for the making of the lightpainting we had to find a balance with the lights in the back (behind the trees) and the effect we wanted to give the image. We used the small island which is all that remains of the small castle it ones held. The bridge is a replica of the one that was once there.

We wanted the lights to give a feel of a party that was happening on the island and a woman entering from the side. The reflections in the water of the lights would give more interest to the composition.

The woman is lit by a Magilight with a simple image (bmp) which we created to keep in balance with the other colors we used for the party effect. The lantern holds a real candle which we had to blow out quickly after the camera started to prevent from blown out parts in the image.

The lights on the island are created with jars holding small candles (which also had to be blown out soon after the camera started to prevent from blown out dots). The string of light (christmas lights on batteries) were placed on sticks to keep them on the right height. The stars were made with smaller flashlights by two people running around placing them on different heights and variations.

The bridge was lit by hand with a Klarus.

Last but not least the bokeh lights had to give a rich feel and link the lights together in the composition. They are made by piercing a black cardboard with tiny little dots (smallest needle we could find) which was held in front of the camera and lit by a single flashlight for a very brief moment. This is why these lights are not showing up in the reflection of the water.

Camera details: ISO 800, F11, 249 seconds Canon 5D IV, 50mm of 24-105 mm and off course on tripod (Manfrotto).
Thanks to our always helpfull model Niye Cika

Only digital work done in Lightroom is bit of color, brightness, crop and export to jpg (shot in RAW)

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Very interesting result balancing two different type of lights

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The setup and technique sound very interesting. Love this heroine.
Welcome to nTOPAZ ! Thank you for sharing your talent with us.

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This is a wonderful place and mood. Excellent work with the lights. I'm glad you took the time and effort to actually try to post it via nTopaz. Hope you come back more often.

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Hi Petra, welcome to @nTOPAZ! We are very happy that you are beginning to contribute your talent so that this community continues to grow.

However, we have noticed that in the realization of this post you have used a photograph belonging to the "ladiesoflight" blog, in order to protect your intellectual content, we need you to please add your nTOPAZ profile to your blog or confirm us in some way that this blog is yours.

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As soon as I have some time I will put nTOPAZ on the blog. As for now please look at the part of the site "Wie zijn Ladies of Light". You will find my profile there, thank you so much!

Your profile has already been verified, Petra. Thank you very much for responding and we regret the inconvenience caused. We hope to see more of your photographs soon

It is a romantic and beautiful effect in photography.

It's an amazing effect that you've created, I wonder, how do they do it? He does not stop impressing me.

The candles, and the party effect, you were wonderful, thanks for sharing.

very beautiful flares and movement of actor.

Fantastic move and nice flares. Looking forward to see more here.

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Awesome arts.

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