Trick Photography and Special Effects

Forward from the Author......Page 7
Camera Bodies......Page 8
Tripods......Page 9
Photoshop......Page 10
Setting the Shutter Speed......Page 12
Setting the Aperture......Page 14
Setting the ISO......Page 15
Setting the White Balance......Page 16
Generic Common Settings for Light Paintings:......Page 17
Maglite M2A016 Review......Page 18
Key chain LED Review......Page 19
Light Drawing......Page 20
Light Painting......Page 21
Using The Fiber Optic Adapter......Page 22
Light Drawing......Page 23
Physiograms......Page 28
RGB LED Strips......Page 29
Laser Pens......Page 30
Fiber Optics......Page 32
Glow in the Dark Paint......Page 34
Pop-Up Flashes and Off-Camera Flashes......Page 35
Flash Gels......Page 36
The Classic Stencil Cut-out Method......Page 37
The Printer Method......Page 38
City Lights......Page 41
Fire Dancing!......Page 43
Sparklers......Page 45
Steel Wool (by Chris Reynolds)......Page 47
EL Wire......Page 50
iPhone and iPad Apps......Page 51
Lights on wheels and hoops......Page 52
Reflections and mirroring......Page 53
Writing Text......Page 54
Combining different lights......Page 55
Creating Orbs......Page 56
Creating Domes......Page 57
Blending Multiple Exposures......Page 58
Light Stitching (Unofficial term)......Page 59
Light Painting Perfect Circles (by Dennis Calvert)......Page 61
Textures......Page 62
Lightning......Page 65
Motion Blur......Page 66
Blurring Waterfalls and Beaches with Long Exposure......Page 68
Blurring Clouds with Long Exposure......Page 71
Long Exposure + Square Format......Page 72
Star Trails......Page 73
Using a Cable Release......Page 74
Camera Settings for Star Trails Photos......Page 75
Secret Star Trail Tricks......Page 76
Other fun long exposures......Page 79
Solargraphy......Page 82
Forced Perspective......Page 85
Reflections in Animal Eyes......Page 87
Reaching into the Monitor......Page 88
Jowlers......Page 89
Rotated Perspective......Page 90
Shaped Bokeh......Page 91
Double Exposures......Page 93
The Orton Effect......Page 94
Birefringence......Page 95
Upside-Down Reflections......Page 96
HDR Photography......Page 97
Taking the HDR Photograph......Page 99
Post-Processing in Photomatix......Page 100
Post-Processing using “Merge to HDR Pro” in Photoshop CS5......Page 101
Manually Tone-Mapping Images......Page 102
Infrared Photography......Page 105
Can my camera take IR photos?......Page 106
Taking Infrared Photos Using the Hoya R72 Filter......Page 108
White Balance and Color Correction for Infrared Photography......Page 109
Channel-Swapping in Photoshop......Page 110
 IR Examples Chart......Page 111
360X180 Planet Panoramas......Page 115
Zenith and Nadirs......Page 117
Using Hugin to Stitch 360x180 Panoramas......Page 118
Inside the Preview window......Page 119
Tone-mapping the Entire Panorama......Page 120
Hugin Tutorials......Page 121
Perfecting The Stitch using Panoramic Tripod Heads......Page 122
Panoramic Tripod Heads......Page 124
Manipulating Panoramas in Flexify (optional but recommended)......Page 125
Working with Trees......Page 128
Doubling Up......Page 130
Multiplicity and 360x180 Panoramas......Page 131
Pseudo Planets......Page 134
Using the Filter Plug-In......Page 135
The “ Pixel Bender+Droste.pbk” Method......Page 136
Choosing The Right Image and Creative Compositions......Page 137
Spiral Planets......Page 140
More Creative Applications......Page 142
Time-Displacement Photography via Scanner......Page 143
The Harris Shutter Effect......Page 144
Introduction to Layer Masks and Blending Modes......Page 146
Head in the Pot......Page 147
Shadow Illusion......Page 150
Bug-Eyed......Page 151
Escaping the TV......Page 152
“Insomnia”......Page 153
Multiplicity Photography......Page 154
Inside of Photoshop......Page 155
Levitation Photography......Page 157
Perfecting Shadows......Page 160
Levitation Photography over Horizons......Page 165
Floating Fruit......Page 166
The Invisible Man #1......Page 168
The Invisible Man #2......Page 169
Flesh Manipulations......Page 174
Blank Head Trick......Page 175
Using Content-Aware Scaling......Page 176
Fake Tilt-Shift Photography......Page 177
Mixing Day with Night......Page 179
Recommended Reading......Page 192