Well I decide to head to Rhyolite, NV and take some night photos. For those of who don’t know Rhyolite is a ghost town outside Beaty Nevada, about 2 hours north of Las Vegas. What a spooky and neat place to take photos.
I arrived around 7:30pm and started to take photos at the Goldwell outdoor Museum, that’s where Albert Szukalsk did his wonderfully version of “The Last Supper” with burlap and plaster.
After reading and watching Joe McNally on Kelby training. I was armed and ready to capture a fantastic photo. I now fully understand the McNally effect. The McNally effect is were you watch his training and run out and purchase way too many toys, thanks Joe.
I decided to tackle the Cook Bank building by trying to light up what’s left is this wonderful building. The commander mode on my D700′s on board flash did not have enough power to trigger the remote flashes a about 100 feet away, so I had to put on one of the SB-900′s on the camera to trigger the remote flash. Zooming the flash to 200mm I was able to reach the furthest flash, thank strobe the flash God. But I was down to one flash left to light up the building, oh well. So I decided to take a series of photos and merge them together afterwords in Photoshop.
I also now have a use for the onOne iPhone app. Basically what that app will allow me to do is remote trigger and view photos taken with my camera. No more take the picture go move the flash, take the picture. Just waiting for the Nikon version to ship. I guess the commercials are right, “There’s a App for that.”
Afterwords in post I used my tried and true method of merging photos using layers and layer masks to paint in the light. Then the light came on and I decided to try a new method. You know there are always new ways to skin a photo. I tried, and some of you will say duh, to use the lighten layer blending method. Wow that’s the beacon, it made it so easy and looked so good. Controlling the different exposures was snap using the opacity slider.
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Bill
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