From the course: Landscape Photography: Night Landscape

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Light painting for creative effect

Light painting for creative effect

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Light painting for creative effect

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- You know, one of the cool things about driving around the California desert is that you never know what you're gonna run into. And today, I came across these very cool dinosaur sculptures in the desert here, and they're life-sized, they're made out of this rusted metal, it's got great textures, and so I thought, "Wow, that would be a great opportunity "to integrate the dinosaur into this "kind of surreal desert landscape, "and maybe try a little creative light painting." So, what I'm gonna do is, I've got my composition already set up, I've got the dinosaur in the background. It's kind of subtle in the shot. In the foreground, I've got this strange, spiky cactus here. Up in the sky above the dinosaur is the moon, behind some clouds, and I'm going to light paint it with a flashlight and a green filter. Green kind of makes sense to me in terms of painting the dinosaur. So, what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna start the shot. It's gonna be about a minute and a half exposure, I've…

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