I already had the best image that I was going to get and I wasn’t expecting anything too special: the comet was a little too low in the sky and the mosquitos were ridiculous, so I wasn’t going to risk EEE to spend too much time outside light-painting an imperfect image. Besides, I had to place my camera/tripod directly in the middle of the street, so all it would take was a single neighbor coming or going from their home to disrupt my composition and force me to start over again. I really went out to grab a few exposures and give myself something to play with on a rainy day.
I ended up blending 5 exposures for this particular image, one for the sky, one for the house and another 3 for the light painting (which, even by my own standards is sub-par). The challenge was white balancing the image as the street lamp and flashlight each had ridiculously divergent values.
It offered me some nice practice in photo manipulation that I don’t know that I’ll ever use, but it was something to do and it allowed me to work in photoshop in a manner that I usually wouldn’t have otherwise.
