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Published: 2008-02-04 17:14:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 2155; Favourites: 55; Downloads: 57
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My first attempt at a light painting, hope you'll like it
I "painted" the ghost and the bicycle with a flashlight during the exposure, and I added in post-process a clouds texture (from my owm stock)
It was shot at Ryolite, a ghost town near the Death Valley. The town is full of creepy sculture as this one. I went there in the middle of the night, with a full moon and a strong wind whistling in the destroyed houses and the nearby cemetery.
It was a very intense experience.
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Wow.. nice .. like it ... although.. i'd like to know more about Light painting ..??
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Jeff, I don't know if you noticed the long row or sculptures. I think that was supposed to be "the last supper". I don't know about the bicycle though.
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I saw the "last supper", I did a light painting on this one too, but the result was not as good as for the bicycle (wrong camera placement). I found info about these sculptures after posting and naming my picture, and actually the sculpture is also called "Ghost Rider"
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Wow. This is very intense.
And the light painting worked out so well. NIcely done
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thank you very much, glad you like it
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Wow, very interesting and inspiring!
You achieved a great effect and you even have a new anecdote to tell to friends!
Keep up the great job and experimenting
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Ya, this is in my hood.... close to where is live...
How kool to see something from the great state of Nevada... other than casinos...
LoL... Creepy... HA,HA,HA... the sculptures were part of a community based art betterment project... to highlight local artist....
I love it..... Vegas Baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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cool ! glad to learn something about this sculptures and glad you like the shot
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It is crazy how much strange stuff there is between the to states of Cali and Nev I love it....
Cheers...
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great artwork... nice atmosphere and great technique !
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i have featured this piece in my journal 
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Stunning...amazing...speechless!!! But, I still have no idea how you "painted" the ghost and bike with flashlight!? How did you put them together? Wasn't it during post-processing? Anyways, gorgeous!!
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Thank you very much
it's a sculpture, there is a stand and they were already together
the good thing about the light painting : you highlight just what you want to show up and you avoid all unwanted elements, as the stand
I didn't "create " any shape with the flashlight, I just used it to put the light were I wanted it.
By using a small asperture (f/11), low iso (100) and long exposure (2min), there is only what was directly lighten which show up, I moved the flash light very closely to the bike and ghost shape (inside the ghost shape actually), I kept myself invisible by always moving
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B-e-a-utiful...I'll try this trick next time
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wow, i havn't seen many shots like this, and i am quite intrigued about the technique...how are the items staying up, how'ya do that?!
well anyway i thinks its a clever in the technique and subject, its quite spooky. the contrast, light and focus is all perfect and i think the addition of clouds is also fab...really can't say anything bad, its uber cool
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Thank you very much
it's a sculpture, so the items stand by themself, there is a stand masks by the clouds
However, even without the clouds, the stand was not visible on the picture, it's the good thing about the light painting : you highlight just what you want to show up and you avoid all unwanted elements, as the stand
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Ah je savais bien qu'il y avait des villages fantΓ΄mes dans le coin.
Pour la photo, vraiment bien jouΓ©. Γa Γ l'air compliquΓ© Γ rΓ©aliser vu comme Γ§a.
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Il y'en plein des villages fantomes ds le coin, mais celui la a quelquechose de plus effrayant que les autres
J'ai du faire plusieurs prise avant d'en avoir une correct : la premiere fois le light painting n'etait pas assez uniforme sur le ghost (grosses traces de lumiere genre coloriage de maternelle), une fois j'ai oublier de peindre une parti du velo, une fois je suis rester trop statique et apparaissait donc sur la photo...j'etait content quand j'ai enfin reussi a avoir ce que je voulais
content que ca te plaise
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Je crois que les villages fantΓ΄mes sont un des premiers trucs que j'aimerai aller voir si je devais repasser en Californie.
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Excellent my friend, it actually has a very frightening style, plus the pose and concept are just awesome!
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glad to read that, thx a lot
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This is gorgeous! Fabulous job.
Some day I would love to visit this place. [:
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cool
I was scared too
thx for the 
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glad you like it, thx for the
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just in case you want to know :
iso 100, f16
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