{"id":56259,"date":"2015-10-12T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/?p=56259"},"modified":"2019-03-08T19:06:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T19:06:29","slug":"creative-photography-behind-the-scene-lightbulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/creative-photography-behind-the-scene-lightbulb\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Photography Behind The Scene: Lightbulb"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Creative Photography Behind The Scene:<\/h2>\n

Lightbulb<\/p>\n

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Background story and tutorial for the Lightbulb shot:<\/h3>\n

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I wanted to do something with a light bulb. I saw a photo online of a light bulb lying on a sheet of perforated aluminium. That inspired me to do something like that, but different.<\/h4>\n

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I already had a sheet of perforated aluminium, which I sew in half to be able to put it in a V shape.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve put a Quadra flash with a 60 degrees reflector on both sides to light the light bulb.<\/p>\n

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I took several shots, lighting the sides one at a time because I found that this was the best way to avoid unwanted reflections. First without the light bulb burning, then the same shots with the light bulb burning.<\/p>\n

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I took them at several shutterspeeds too to be able to choose the best light of the light bulb.<\/p>\n

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After shooting the light bulb in the mount, the hardest part came. I needed a shot of the light bulb screw.<\/p>\n

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I basically disassembled the lamp, gaffer-taped a strip of aluminium on the foot and hot-glued the light bulb onto the strip, at the right height.<\/p>\n

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After that I had to put back the lamp in the right position between the aluminium sheets, to be able to align it properly in Photoshop. Now th\u00e1t was a PITA.<\/p>\n

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After blending and merging all these shots in Photoshop, image Lightbulb 1.0 was the outcome. I was happy with it, but it did not turn out the way I had planned it.<\/p>\n

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I woke up the next morning, realizing what I should have done differently. I should have used softboxes instead of reflectors\u2026<\/p>\n

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That evening I started over again, but then using softboxes. Now that did not go the way I expected.<\/p>\n

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I wasted over 1\u00bd hour trying to get decent shots. The problem was that the aluminium was reflecting too much light to give nice reflections in the glass.<\/p>\n

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I tried to use black paper on each side of the light bulb and then combining them in Photoshop but that didn\u2019t work either because I kept accidentally moving the light bulb, which made it a nightmare aligning it in Photoshop.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s where I figured I had to spray paint the sheets in a matte black. So that\u2019s what I did.<\/p>\n

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With the sheets painted black it all went a lot smoother. It still took me about 6 hours to complete this shot though.<\/p>\n

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I started with the light bulb turned off, shooting one side at the time. This gave the nicest reflections in the bulb.<\/p>\n

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After shooting both sides, I did the same shots again but then with the bulb burning. After that I took two shots without the lamp in place, firing one flash at the time.<\/p>\n

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Then I disassembled the lamp again, taped the aluminium strip and hot-glued the bulb\u2026. And then the same PITA of getting the screw in the right place\u2026<\/p>\n

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Several attempts later I succeeded. Put all the shots in Photoshop (ended up with 10 layers) and created the final image (Lightbulb 2.0).<\/p>\n

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