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The Four Stages of Man
The Four Stages of Man
Tim


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Challenge: Painting With Light III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Home
Date: Jun 6, 2007
Aperture: 13
ISO: 100
Shutter: Bulb - 84 seconds
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jun 5, 2007

 All of this was in one exposure but it was a 3 person job to get it right, one handsome model (my little brother), a photographer (me of course) and a mate to hold and aim the second flash. The flashes were handheld and its sort of painted so hopefully I dont get too many DNMC votes.

We recently got a 5m long remote shutter release cable which meant that I could stand a long way off to the side and manually fire a flash while someone else pointed a slave flash from the other side. Both flashes had pretty long snoots on them (home made from a coco pops box) so the spread of the light was pretty narrow. The low iso and small f/stop meant there was no ambient light so it was pretty easy to get my brother to change hats between flashes.
The hardest part was getting his heads lined up square and making sure that the light from both flashes actually hit his head. Out of about 30 shots this was one of the only ones where the heads were square and both flashes hit the right spot, almost.

Statistics
Place: 135 out of 245
Avg (all users): 5.3265
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.3729
Avg (non-participants): 5.3066
Views since voting: 833
Views during voting: 371
Votes: 196
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/13/2007 05:37:37 PM
is this a non-stationary (moving) light source
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 06/12/2007 05:03:22 PM
Nicely done!
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 06/11/2007 07:19:50 PM
Pretty cool. Glad you passed muster.
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 06/10/2007 10:35:19 AM
Nice capture - Good for basic editing.
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 06/10/2007 05:51:46 AM
Not sure what the stages are as its just a bit dark to me, the last one particually confuses me. Also I'll have to check back to see how this was done, good Luck
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 06/09/2007 04:38:02 PM
very interesting effort - well composed and very well completed - 9
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 06/06/2007 01:30:02 PM
very nice!!!!
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