ATPI, Photo Package Night

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SO, photo package night was a tough one.
I had been up for 24 hours straight by the end of the night. I was helping Sabrina and Ndidi for the most part, but I spent most of my time with Ndidi.

(images a few posts back)

To start out, we spent a lot of time just setting up. We had to get the bottle cleaned and get the "fairy" glowing. The glow fluid ended up getting in my eyes at one point. That was unpleasant...

We spent the first three hours working on just the first image. Finding all the right settings and how to light the bottle. How to get the fairy where we wanted. It was a lot of problem solving just for the first few hours, but we eventually got it.

The 4th hour, we spent on the second photo... deciding whether to light up the whole bottle. How to make the fairy look like it was coming out of the bottle. How to time it without blowing out the image.

The 5th and 6th hour, we spent just trying to get the last image and processing. We tried a few different ways to get the light flowing around the bottle. We started by putting a flashlight behind a cloth, but that was too bright and didn't really make a flowing anything. We tried just the flashlight. Same result, and there was no discernible color. Finally, we settled on putting the glowing fluid on a cloth and moving it around. Then it was just a matter of capturing the image we were looking for. We had to do it at least 20 different times just to make it look right, then another 20 to get an image we liked. 

But all in all, it was dedication for sure. 6 hours of work and my eyes still a bit dry by the end of the night, but both of the girls got an award!