You take black matt board and you make the cut-out. The cut-out is mounted with a hinge so that once it is exposed (as you move the flame behind the cutout) you then drop the cutout, place the hand in position and shoot off the flashes. It is not, a picture of a hand with a cutout. Another long exposure and done in darkness. It can be done better but I got the idea at the 11th hour and I used a 15 watt blue bulb to accomodate placement. With more time you can arrange to do it in total darkness. As usual, I am lately taking minimum time to shoot while I contend with my hard drive crashes and one problem after another. Today, they replaced the hard drive on my New Imac which has made these past two months a bit difficult.
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You always make me want to get my tripod out and try stuff Dan! Thank you for continuing to be an inspiration. Glad to hear that your hard drive woes are being sorted finally.
This is really cool! I love how you always explain your setup & execution steps. Thank you for continuing to provide expert advice to young & old, novice & pro, good, bad, & ugly. ;-) You're the best Dan!
Creative idea. I'll be interested to see how you achieved the effect. From a technical standpoint, the skin color seems a little bit off. Also, if the pi shape wasn't quite so sharp, it wouldn't look as cut out and might look more natural.
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