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Expanding Universe

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Exploring The Expanding Universe

We speed in through outer space towards a brilliant light in this stock photo about speed, energy, expansion and exploration of the unknown. The center of this image is a bright light surrounded by celestial bodies and the black of deep space. This attention-grabbing image is full of movement and excitement, and color. At its core is a halo like glow that promises answers and perhaps even holds the meaning of life.


Speed, Energy and Motion

Speed, energy and motion are important concepts that need exciting images to portray those messages. This picture of zooming lights provides one visual solution in a versatile stock photo that can be cropped many ways and can be used to illustrated a wide variety of hard to pin down concepts.


How To Create Stock Photos With Photoshop

To create this stock photo I used Photoshop to composite and enhance a single image captured while zooming my Canon lens with a long shutter speed. I was seated at a restaurant in Bangkok, at night, that was wildly decorated with strands of colored lights. The name of the restaurant is Cabbages and Condoms, and is part of a project promoting safe sex. I set my camera settings to "Blub", which leaves the shutter open as long as the shutter button is depressed, then zoomed during an approximate 2 second exposure. After opening the image in Photoshop I duplicate the layer, applied a strong "Radial" filter, set to "zoom". I set the mode of the new layer to "lighten only". Finally, I added a lens flare effect to the center of the zoom point. Voila! A concept stock photo that cost me basically nothing to produce (aside from the costs of a trip to Bangkok...).



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