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I like to finish every wedding reception with a long exposure of the venue at night. Typically cloudy, sometimes raining, but occasionally a beautifully clear and crisp night, stars twinkling in the spring sky.
On this particular evening, after all of the formalities had taken place, I slipped outside and was greeted with one of those rare nights: a perfectly clear, starry night sky.
As I was capturing a single long exposure - 1/20sec, f/4.0, ISO800 - I was reminded of a technique to create star trails: multiple exposures blended together using the "Lighten" blending mode. Something clicked inside my head - I'm facing roughly South, the stars might "circle" around somewhere above the building, this could be a perfect chance to create something unique.
I set my intervalometer for 40 shots, and left the camera click away, 20sec exposures at a time.
Some time during this 10 minute process, another light bulb moment - what if I was to include the bride & groom in the image???
We rushed inside, intervalometer still clicking away, and gently coerced Frith & Channa outside into the chilly night.
With the intervalometer still in the same 40-image process, we positioned them in front of the barn, and lit them with a couple of spurts of off-camera flash.
We tried a few poses:
Blending the images together is embarrassingly simple: simply layer the images and use the Lighten blending mode.
The final image is far from perfect - I should have used >40 images, Frith & Channa are blurred slightly due to motion - but it's definitely something unique for myself, and one of their favourite images of the day. Or the night!
On this particular evening, after all of the formalities had taken place, I slipped outside and was greeted with one of those rare nights: a perfectly clear, starry night sky.
As I was capturing a single long exposure - 1/20sec, f/4.0, ISO800 - I was reminded of a technique to create star trails: multiple exposures blended together using the "Lighten" blending mode. Something clicked inside my head - I'm facing roughly South, the stars might "circle" around somewhere above the building, this could be a perfect chance to create something unique.
I set my intervalometer for 40 shots, and left the camera click away, 20sec exposures at a time.
Some time during this 10 minute process, another light bulb moment - what if I was to include the bride & groom in the image???
We rushed inside, intervalometer still clicking away, and gently coerced Frith & Channa outside into the chilly night.
With the intervalometer still in the same 40-image process, we positioned them in front of the barn, and lit them with a couple of spurts of off-camera flash.
We tried a few poses:
Blending the images together is embarrassingly simple: simply layer the images and use the Lighten blending mode.
The final image is far from perfect - I should have used >40 images, Frith & Channa are blurred slightly due to motion - but it's definitely something unique for myself, and one of their favourite images of the day. Or the night!
The bride’s arrival is always an important moment, rich of emotions that have to be captured. In every wedding this moment is different and unexpected. The photographer
We are Ana and Daniel! We are friends, husband and wife, mother and father in our daily life and a team in our professional life. Together we are known as FotoDumbrava, PhotoDumbr
