Tomorrow’s the last evening to practice this month’s assigment! Tell me… have you been experimenting with light painting?
You have?? Then don’t forgot to submit your photo to me by 11:59pm tomorrow night for a chance to win this great Karen Foster prize pack!
Come on – show me whatcha got! 
For our November assignment winner, we have a Karen Foster prize pack! To qualify, read our November tutorial on Light Graffiti and submit your photo by 11:59pm EST on November 30th, 2009. Don’t forget to include your camera settings in the Comments field to be eligible!
Happy Clicking!
and this gorgeous prize package from Pink Paislee may be yours!!
**October '09 prize pack by Pink Paislee**
Oh, baby… come to Mama!
So, did you take a nap this afternoon so you could stay up late and get some night-time shots? I want to share a series of photos that I snapped of the full moon last week – it was around 8:30pm but already the sky was so dark…
Not that you can tell from these photos! All were shot with my tripod and a wide-open aperture of f/1.8:
**Settings: f/1.8, 6.0 sec., ISO 400**
After photographing this, I realized that my exposure, at 6 seconds, was too long, overexposing the photo and showing considerable amounts of blur from the trees swaying in the breeze. So I halved my time to 3.0 seconds and snapped this one:
**Settings: f/1.8, 3.0 sec., ISO 400**
It was still way too overexposed for my purpose! So I dialed it right down again to 1.3 seconds:
**Settings: f/1.8, 1.3 sec., ISO 400**
Since it’s hard for me to judge exposure on my LCD screen, I always take several shots, bracketing my photos. I find that it increases the chance of me getting the shot I want, so I photographed it at 1.6 seconds and 1.0 seconds:
**[Settings: f/1.8, 1.6 sec., ISO 400**
**Settings: f/1.8, 1.0 sec., ISO 400**
Ah! Now we’re getting somewhere!
These images are all SOOC (straight out of the camera) so I enhanced the colours slightly, using the Pioneer Woman‘s Photoshop Actions (go and get your own right HERE – they are awesome!)
First, I ran her Boost action (one of my favourites) to enhance the colour:
**Enhanced using the PS Boost action by Ree Drummond**
Then I ran the Lovely and Ethereal action (another favourite) – perfect for those photos where you want a dreamy and well, ethereal look!
**Enhanced using the PS Lovely and Ethereal action by Ree Drummond**
Ah… Photoshop is a beautiful thing!
So get out there and start snapping – not only will you learn a bit more about your camera, but you may end up with a fabby photo to scrapbook, not to mention a wicked prize!
Happy Clicking!
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Sue has been behind a camera for more than 25 years, working professionally as a photographer for the last ten years. While she began the hobby of scrapbooking in 2000, as a complement to her photographer career, it soon grew into a rival passion! Sue loves to enlarge one of her favourite photos and make it the focal point of her page, using her supplies to bring the focus onto her photography. She has, in recent years, turned more to scrapbooking "moments" rather than "events", choosing to leave her children more insight into her point of view of their lives.
Sue has been married to her best friend, Gary, for over 10 years and has two children, Connor and Aili. She considers herself very fortunate to be so lucky to work not only for herself, but also to be involved with Canadian Scrapbooker - both of which combine her passion for scrapbooking and writing!
CONTACT SUE: sue@canadianscrapbooker.ca
