Steph: learned some cool tricks about using layering to make composite images with multiple exposures. I had a shot of an old car in Tombstone and was trying to do HDR and it wasn’t coming out looking very good. Bottom of this post http://www.youngsnowbirds.com/tombstone/gunfight-ok-corral-tombstone-arizona/.

Ben’s trick was to open all the exposures as layers, putting the darkest one on the bottom. Change the blending mode of all the other layers to “lighten” and then mask any areas on each you don’t want to use, or delete them if they don’t add anything. Worked great – I layered on the car lights reflecting in the side of the car without making the dark parts get lighter.

I also like his painting with flashlights – it’s an old trick from the late 80’s early 90’s called painting with light. Go to http://www.bestofben.com/ and under Galleries choose Light Painting. Found out how he’s doing it – not in one exposure but using the layers technique. I wanna try it.