WitchBlade
This was a photo that I had taken on Opoutere Road (here), East Coast of North Island at 9 PM just after sunset on 31st December 2009. Just 15 kms from this place was the town of Whitianga with a crowd of thousands waiting for the clock to strike 12 into the new year. I still remember how quiet and lonely it was and almost wished that I spotted something out of the ordinary. Well, I didn’t , so I decided to add it myself, a witch on a broomstick which is probably called WitchBlade (in memory of my FireBlade).
The silence was only pierced by the steady and mellow hum of inline – four engine of the BKing standing just behind me.
The final photo is a result of processing the raw image in Photoshop and Lightroom. The witch was created using a standard photoshop brush using a mouse and a little color was added to make things more vibrant.
The photo above came straight out of the camera. I was using a Canon 500D with a Canon 70-200mm f4 L (non IS) with a 1.4x extender, which further made it slower to f5.6. The final settings were: 200mm and the extender (effective 280mm) at 800 ISO.
Below is another variant, a monochrome version without the fantasies.
