"do the softly lit outside night landscape thing. use the big ass softbox, and take more than one picture.... one with softbox lighting something, one without. keep the ambient low for both, but present so that you can see clearly that there is no lightsource in the one w'out a light. merge the two pictures together in photoshop."
i saw this guy's online portfolio once, and he had all these amazing night shots, where ordinary objects were amazingly well lit with no apparent lightsource in sight:
http://www.timsimmons.co.uk/index.php
and after thinking about it for awhile, i think the way he's accomplishing this is he locks his camera down on a tripod, then takes multiple exposures with big light sources in the frame, then uses photoshop to mask out any evidence of his light source. like with this one:
http://www.timsimmons.co.uk/gallery/Palm-Springs-Airport-Fence-2004.jpg
yeah, it's fantastic. so i tried to reverse engineer it and do something similar myself. so this is my backyard, and that's one of my chairs right there. i used a 40" alienbee softbox with a sb-28 stuck in the speedring to light this, set at 1/8th power. took 3 shots, moving the softbox each time. then i composited it together in photoshop, exported it, and here it is.
it's a fun technique, and it's pretty easy to do. this was really just a test, to see how hard the easiest possible version of this would be.
strobist info:
nikon d60 iso 100, 4sec exp at f3.5
sb-28 in a 40" softbox 1/8th power, triggered 3 times via pw.
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