Got inspired by a pro photographer named Eric Curry, saw his awesome video and image on the net brings me to try the technique my self. With a lot of patient and after hundreds of shots taken just to get a final single image, finally the result is just AWESOME... the detail and color of the output just made me to plan more shoots using this technique...
Camera: Nikon D7000 on a Tripod
Settings: ISO100 | 10" / F16
Light Source : LED Torch
A simple technique to learn but needs a lot of patient in implementing it. Where u need to find a really dark place and the only source of light will be your LED Torch or any sort of small size torch you have. The setup is simple, you just need to place your static subject in a dark room and then place your camera on a tripod. Set the camera to capture with slow shutter speed, maybe around 10 second or more. Remember to use a very sturdy tripod and once you have your setup ready, do not move your camera and tripod. Because the next step is to shoot hundreds of photo of your setup. You might need to set your aperture to F11 or F6, as long your image is totally dark.
Focusing your subject - for now you may use Auto Focusing and get your subject in focus. You may point you torch to the subject and get the camera to focus where you pointing. Once done focusing, you need to set the the to manual focus. We don't want the camera to keep searching for a focus point while we painting the LED torch on the subject in a slow shutter speed.
Next will be the fun part, in this step is to paint your subjects with the LED torch. After making sure the camera setting and it's in Manual Focus, we will take our first photo and at the same time we will paint the subject part by part in each 10 seconds. Meaning every time you release the shutter button, you have 10 seconds to paint your subject from front to rear and top to bottom. This may get you to take hundreds of photos, because later when combining the images we might need few images to replace different angle of lighting on the subject.
Post Production - After a long period of shoots with hundreds of photos, it's time to combine your images in Photoshop. What you need to do is, simply load all your images in to one Photoshop Document. Each images will placed on dedicated layers. Next, simply select all the layer and change the Blending Mode to "Lighten". Be amaze will the result. Few touch ups might be needed, you may have to delete unwanted light streaks appearing on your image. Remove those streaks by selecting that layer and using the Eraser tool, wipe and delete the light leaks. That's it, you are done.
It might be a bit hard work, but the result will awesome. I'm thinking off more project soon using this technique, just waiting for the right time.
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