Light beams shining through a window or breaking through clouds. What could be more ephemeral and as photographers sometimes we have just a second or two to capture the moment. That’s usually the time I have my camera switched off or I’m driving along a road where it’s not safe to stop.
For the camera, the creative moment is brief–a compelling, ephemeral collision of event and artist. Extreme awareness combined with unobtrusiveness becomes the contest the photographer must work within. – Ken Ruth
In effect you have to be in the right place at the right time to get that sometimes illusive shot. Or you could just cheat.
There are plenty of plugins or tutorials for Photoshop allowing you to add light beams in post processing. Is it ethical? I’ve argued this point before and we had a good discussion at the end of my previous blog post. In many ways I haven’t changed my mind since then but sometimes I like to play around in Photoshop adding elements to my original photograph. That’s how I learnt to use the software in the first place. Of course you may disagree with me and I’d like to hear your views.
Oh! And this photograph. Where the light beams captured by the camera or added in post processing?
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Light beams really are a beauty and not easy to capture – lovely shot
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I find them very hard to capture
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Beautiful window and the shafts of sunlight make the scene ephemeral as you have described. I have no idea if these are real or not but I’m guessing that you added these in light room. There seems to be more beams than I think would have been coming through the window but then I was not there and anything is possible.
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Definitely added Yvonne. I have always found that although I can see them they are very difficult to capture
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Beautiful picture. where is the window? I am guessing the beams were edited in perhaps?
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The window is in Saint James, Holywell, one of the churches I had to photograph for the Sacred Doorways project.
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beautiful Mike, I also think the beams have been add but it is gorgeous.
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Yes they were added in photoshop
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