rotate 90cw, resize to 720x, sharpen(not USM), save for web.
I know i'll get hammered for the, um, imperfections in the paper. Oh, well. It took forever to get it close to how I envisioned.
How I did it:
(inspired by strobist - strobist.blogspot.com)
**Disclaimer** DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME (like I did), ELECTRICITY IS DANGEROUS. Touching the bulb base or exposed wires could cause serious injury or death.
The lightbulb is taped to a wooden dowel. I sodered (sp?) a cheap extention cord directly to the bulb and taped the cord to the dowel. The dowel is supported by a piece of pegboard. The blue paper has a slit, barely visible (hopefully), to allow the dowel to pass through. The bulb is about six inches above the paper. An sb-25 with a cardboard snoot/barndoors is lighting both the bulb base and the background "swoosh". The bulb is lit via the hidden extension cord. I set the shutter speed to expose for the bulb and the aperture to expose for the base and BG.
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A clever shot with nice color contrast. I only wish you had more space between the bulb and the background so the halo of light from the bulb didn't show there.
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