ISO - 100
Aperture - f/16
Shutter - 328 seconds
Sigma 28-70 2.8 EX HSM @ 63mm
I lit the spots on the lava rock using a penlight/maglight with electricians tape over the light's lens and a hole punched through it. I also combined yellow and magenta gels (also taped to the light) to create the orange glow. I went around and held the penlight right on each spot because the amount of light I was getting was really tiny.
I back-lit this with a regular flashlight and threw a gel on to fill in the shadow with some blue light. I'm not really pleased with the blue fill, but this was the best image I had so...I went with it anyway.
The sand is the same sand used in my "Sands of Time" image. Yeah, unfortunately I couldn't think of anything better for a background.
This is far from the "completed image" I was hoping to achieve. Every time I look at it I see something else that I could have done better. But frankly, after about 15 of these 5 minute exposures, I was quite fed up with the whole thing and just entered my best one.
No matter how I finish, I'm just happy I finally came up with something for a challenge! :D
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I love your very creative technique. You pulled it off nicely and I think that had the details been available to voters, this shot would have been better appreciated and scored higher.
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