Practical Photography - UK (2020-01)

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HOWMANYWORDSIS

a pi ctureworth?It’san old

cliché,butit stillringstrue as

AshrafulArefin(ashrafularefin.

com)has demonstrated with

hisatmosphericshot.

“I findmundaneobjects

andturnthemintosomething

beautifulthattellsa story.

I enjoyphotographingold

objectslikethisrustyoil lamp.

Theyalreadyhavea history

andcharacterthatshows

throughin theimages.

“F orthisshot,takenin

a fo restin Cox’sBazarin

Bangladesh,I wantedto

createsomethingsimple yet

whimsical,somethinglike

a magical forest where fairies
lit little lights to drive out the
darkness. The setup was pretty
simple. I set the focus just on
a single lantern with a trail of
defocused lanterns off into the
background. I took one main
shot with the lantern in focus.
Then I switched to manual to
lock my focus on that spot,
took the lantern and placed
it in several places in the
background, taking a shot each
time. I used a wide aperture to
create some beautiful bokeh.
In Photoshop I combined them
together into one image and
added a dust overlay to give
Nikon a magical look.”

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|85mm

|1/800sec

|f/1.

|ISO

125

# 2 Weave a story

into your images

STILL LIFE

20 PRACTICAL PHOTOGRAPHY

TIP

USETHE

ST ACKFUNCTION

Photoshop’sStackfunction

automaticallybringsopen

imagestogetherintothe

samefile as separate

layers.