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Looks nice.
You can do this even easier using photoshop - no hardware required.
Mount camera on tripod. Take shots as normally. In photoshop, adjust highlight colors appropriately (or use selective mask) and change arc colors Then simply combine final images using LIGHTEN blend method.
Add a "brighter" normal shot (no arcs) to the stack for your background and "normal" coloring.
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I get regularly accused of using Photoshop so I increasingly against using it (and I don't have it anyway).
Tell me, what would be hard to photoshop correctly in regard to sparks and not just coloured ones. Perhaps multiple mirrors, or a mirror ball or a mirror sphere. I want to know what would make you think it could not have been photoshopped.
I seem to recall one of your previous multilayered shots lacking saturation since sparks should saturate the exposure, not be diluted several times.
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If I remember right, EVR used that multilayer technique *because* he didn't like the saturation (blocked-up highlights) you get from a plain long exposure.
TDU, are you trying to emulate the Tesla weapon from Red Alert? or maybe the proton beams from Ghostbusters
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Loss of saturation just doesn't look right though. 5000K or whatever is saturated, visually or photographically provided the spark is wider than a pixel.
Next time I get it up and running I will put my wide angle lens in the Dalek cage to take what I see with sparks very close up.
And the fictional TC. Sorry I have to kill you now.
If you look at the Red Alert TC it has mostly white sparks with one yellow one thrown in. Still lots to do to make that a worthwhile shot including another new effect. Of course, it could just be photoshopped....
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Multi-colored TC sparks - colorwheel effects
