Creating art in Joshua Tree National Park - Milky Way night/landscape photography meets model portraits. I have a passion for the night sky and long exposure photography - I am very confident that I can achieve a daytime-style photo at night, in a single exposure!
This image was achieved by manually triggering OCF during a 10-15sec exposure. Coaching/directing my subject to "hold" & "breathe" during and after exposures and providing adequate lighting while keeping an eye out for critters.
Post process: Lightroom
Nicely done, if you like that sort of thing.
Thanks? Leave the back-handed compliments for FB.
Nice concept. I regularly shoot JTNP at night. If I may, next time you do this, photograph the scene as you would to best capture without her in it. Then the last couple seconds of your exposure, have her rush into the scene, pose, and splash your light. Assuming you're shooting the scene for 20-25 seconds, you won't notice her "trailing" or "ghosting" into the scene at all.
Of course, it would be much easier to do this in 2 exposures, but seems like you're trying to avoid that.
Thank you Ryan. I've done much trial & error with ocf, at the beginning, middle, and end of 20-30 exposures. The "hold" command, if you will, is to prepare my subject for an upcoming bright light. But yes, you are right, triggering the flash towards the end of the exposure is best.
Next run at this I will for sure push it to 20-25 seconds. While considering so many other inconsistent factors at night. In the last 10+ years, I have achieved different results using the same techniques and vice versa, similar/same results attempting varied techniques.
I like the picture and think the idea has a lot of potential, not that I'm anywhere near an expert. I'm wondering what the streak of light coming out of the tree on the left is. Also, I think that tree is a little distracting. Since the tree is already cut off, I would crop to show much less tree. As a personal preference, I do not like the pose the subject has. It just seems awkward to me.