Night Rider

Night Rider
Originally uploaded by jojomamangun

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Sometimes laziness can bring you somewhere unexpectedly good.

It took me more than an hour to make this miniature mini cooper interesting. I went from plain white to plain black back ground but found them boring. Add bokeh to make it more interesting right? Then, it took me more time to figure out a nice angle and lighting with the bokeh.

When I was happy with the angle and light with my LP120, I thought the bottom half of the frame was too dark. Here's where the laziness came in. I was too lazy to put up another stand and strobe for the bottom half. I remembered i had this led bike light in my drawer and since i was exposing for 2 seconds, why not "paint" it with light.

I did couple of exposures for the bottom half, sides, front, etc and masked them together in post. I figured it was easier that way. Ended up using 3 frames only.