223/365: Ball Light-ening.

Well, first night on Site 204 at Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park. After paddling in and setting up camp I found I hadn’t really used the camera a lot. Part of that had to do with the solo paddle against the wind, part of that had to do with the amount of motor boats on Anstruther Lake meant I kept the camera secured inside it’s dry bag rather than risk getting the canoe swamped with a passing water skier. Anyway, we were promised a meteor shower and the camera was ready for it. Unfortunately we had cloudy skies. Here started taking some long exposures at sunset to flatten out the water before we started playing around with flashlights on strings. This is a composite image – one with the landscape and then blended in Photoshop with “lighten” which removed the silhouette of Steve (who was swinging the flashlight) and allowed the brighter landscape photo to fill in more detail. This is another technique I have to play around more with.