Belly-button lights!

[bloodhound31]

Two mates gave me a hand for this one...or a belly. We had no white reflectors to even out the torch-light for this long-exposure. So the three of us used a dolphin torch each, lifted our shirts and reflected the light off our bare white bellies to light the foreground evenly!!

Worked out good huh?

[Logieberra]

Secret men's business? Nice shot ;0)

Looking foward to one of your expeditions Baz.

Logie.

[erick]

Too much information? :D

But a nice result!

[supernova1965]

I was almost turned off clicking on this thread :scared3:

But I am glad I persisted nice shot.
I am very glad that there were no BELLY BUTTONS though:P:rofl:

[bloodhound31]

That's ok mate, I am a bit shy about my rock-hard rippling abs of steel.... :P

[supernova1965]

Yeah I have them too NOT:D

[troypiggo]

Improvisation in the field. Love it.

[leon]

That's pretty awesome Baz, great composition.

Leon

[jjjnettie]

Well worth the effort!
That's a looovely image.

[Liz]

Lovely image, way to go. :thumbsup:

[hotspur]

Wow!,certainly very impressive image-and interesting 'in the field' approach.

Barry- I am just wondering if you could let us know how you did the other parts of the image-exp time for night sky,I am wondering if you had a small EQ mount you take into the field for your camera.I take it its a composite image.Hope you do not mind revealing some more details (the bellies are revealed:lol: so I guess you will not mind sharing a few how too's of this lovely image).

Cheers Chris

[gary]

Hi Baz,

Fabulous image with a great contrast between the rocks and the sky. Timeless.

[acropolite]

GUTsy effort Baz.:thumbsup:

[bloodhound31]

Nothing fancy I'm afraid Chris. Just a single 30 second exposure. No composites, no layers, nothing. Sitting on a plain old static tripod.

[bloodhound31]

Yes Phil, we all had the intestinal fortitude to bare ourselves in the bush....

[bloodhound31]

Thanks everyone for the nice comments!

Baz.

[supernova1965]

WOW you have given me hope all I need is a darker site and a heap more skill. What ISO and Aperture if you don't mind revealing secrets.

[bloodhound31]

ISO 1600 at F2.8 Warren.

[supernova1965]

Thanks from your most humble student:bowdown:

[ballaratdragons]

It will be interesting to see how you write this up in the 'Photography for Beginners' book.

"Chapter 6 Part 3: Belly 'soft floodlighting' - In this section we discuss how to use 3 Dolphin Torches, 2 friends, and your bellies . . . "

:rofl:

[hotspur]

Well,Barry-I think this is one of the most impressive images I've seen on this forum,for a long time-well done!,surely worth sending into apod.Thanks for letting us know details on settings-what focal length the lens?Must be a very dark location the stars etc looking very bright for 30 seconds.Should be IOTW.

Cheers Chris

[bloodhound31]

Wow Chris, that's quite a pep mate! I'm honoured you think so much of it!

I was using my 16-35L on 16mm.

I wonder if there will now be a flood of images soon, all lit by various parts of the body...I'm thinking of borrowing some people again for a line-up of full moons behind the scenes to light the subject... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Baz.

[supernova1965]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooo OH Behind the scenes ya get it BEHIND

[Ric]

An interesting concept Baz.

It definitely worked a treat though for an excellent image.