Creating Lighting Effects for Advanced Compositing

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• Bret introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.
• Learn what gear and setup is required to create these lighting effects.
• Bret shares some of the gear he uses for light painting.
• Now that you have the gear and everything set up you can start painting with light to create your effects.
• After setting yourself up in a safe environment you can capture some flames and sparks.
• After capturing a series of smaller sparks and flames Bret moves to the fire pit for a larger flame.
• Taking it up another notch, Bret lights a Christmas tree on fire to capture larger flames.
• After the shooting is done you’ll want to go through all photos and select the photos you want to use in your projects.
• It is really important to imagine where things can go when you try to match the right special effects for your photos.
• With your selections and pre-visualization complete, it is time to edit your effects in Adobe Camera Raw (or Lightroom).
• Bret begins the process of compositing in some of the lighting effects into the final photo.
• Once your light painted elements have been added to the composition you’ll probably need to manipulate its shape to fit your subject.

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