Road Hazard

You never know what you're going to have to deal with at night...

Good Wednesday everyone. I found some free blip time.

This needs to be Enlarged.


Caution Tech Stuff:

This was pretty easy and took less than an hour all told. Outside on my neighbor's walkway, I placed the camera on the ground and shot a 4 second exposure with a flashlight running down along the snow from above. Then I shot the same thing again this time running the light down the left side of the miniature truck. Finally I removed the truck and placed a large snow boulder out in front of where it was and took another exposure lighting the boulder like it was being lit by headlights. Finally down in front of a white sheet I captured myself with my shovel.

Now with all the shooting done I added the first 2 shots together using a mask on the left hand side one and painted out what I didn't need from that shot. Blending the best parts of the 2 shots. Next I added the snow boulder and with a mask removed everything I didn't need from that one. Finally knocking myself out from my white background using another mask, I placed and re-sized myself into the scene. Remember I never cut but instead use masks. This way you can always fix things at a later time. Now to make it look more real I added a little shadow under myself, an elongated crop, touch of sharpness and we're done.

The truck measures around 10 inches (26cm) in length. Enjoy...