Day for Night Shot: Making moonlight

I just finished this image for Thursday Happy Hour and I’m happy to report that it’s pretty close to what I envisioned. We wanted the look of bright moonlight with flares of directional incandescent light to resemble patio lighting. The catch was that it was 9:00 this sunny morning.

Without getting all boring with the details I went all Joe McNally on this thing and bashed the heck out the sunlight with full power strobes gelled to the desired color temp. Whatdaya think? Kinda moonlighty?

~ by Gary Allard on August 14, 2009.