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Walk the path of light, my child
Walk the path of light, my child
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Challenge: Painting With Light III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: Table
Date: May 31, 2007
Aperture: f22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 30s
Galleries: Emotive, Still Life
Date Uploaded: May 31, 2007

 This was all lit with a small LED torch, which gave a beautiful focused spot light. The model is sitting on a grey/white benchtop. With the dark room, and focused spot, the background was easy to get totally black, so you can't see all the junk on my desk. :)

Anyway, I experimented with lots of different light patterns, and settled on this as my favourite. I like the fact that the woman is mostly shadowed, in favour of the child. However, for me, the photo is mostly about the woman, and the high contrast draw attention to the fact that she's in shadow, putting the child first.

The shot is lit from top, a little from the front for the kid, and for the drawn path on the table.

I took these shots at ISO100 to limit noise, but with a 30 sec exposure, the noise still came out strong, particularly as the original was very underexposed. I used Noise-Ninja, but it's still pretty bad. PP was curves, saturation, crop and sharpen.

Statistics
Place: 117 out of 245
Avg (all users): 5.4663
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
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Votes: 193
Comments: 8
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Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Olympus 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital
 09/20/2007 05:14:44 AM
This is lovely and I think you have done a great job of expressing emotion with inanimate objects ;)
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 28-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 06/15/2007 08:48:12 AM
beautiful.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital
 06/12/2007 03:28:06 PM
Interesting story being told with the light.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D200
Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5 EX-DC HSM
06/11/2007 11:25:24 PM
I'm not a fan of figuienes but this is ok,
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/11/2007 05:09:26 PM
A beautiful image. There's quite a lot of dithering in the transition from blue to black but the concept and the execution of the light path are great.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Fujifilm X-T5
Fujifilm XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR
 06/10/2007 05:12:42 PM
Nice lighting and shadow play, brings out the textures and detail very well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D80
Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro for Nikon
 06/10/2007 12:48:08 PM
painting with light?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S
 06/09/2007 09:37:12 PM
nice lighting on the figurines - the light path is a little bright for my taste
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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