Group f11

In 2008 three photographers, starting out on their careers, decided to keep in contact through a blog page in which they could share ideas, post images and ask each other advice. This has since mutated into a web space where those photographers still meet, but so too do their students and other like-minded photographers.

If anybody would like to join all you need to do is email the blog administrator, Emil
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Light


Late as usual, and also trying to kill two birds with one stone so to speak. Here's my entry into Last month's theme, light. These are two of my photography students in St Lucia. I had them pose for me while I painted them with my LED headlamp. this is always a fun shoot for the students who have often not had the chance to shoot long exposures at night. I posted an earlier shoot of a lightening storm last year that was on a similar excursion.

I hope January and the rest of 2009 is looking up for everyone. Neil...you owe an image of a certain road in the Free State as per our deal last year ;)

Cheers

E

4 comments:

Group f11 said...

I presume the two students that appear in this image were randomly selected and just happened to be young blondes... ;-)

Neil.

Emil von Maltitz said...

Hand picked :)

E

Mandy Rapson said...

Are those light trails where you walked around and lit up the subjects?

What photoshopping did you do to get the final product?

Emil von Maltitz said...

Hi Mandy, yes thoise are light trails from my petzl, and also a car that went past (we waited for it to show up befroe we statred the exposure. The full exposure was about 30ish seconds at f5.6on ISO 200. The only photoshop work was to tone down the highlights slightly with the highlight shadow tool on a mask, and then to sharpen for the output size for web

E