The area of the Royal Mile is replete with photo shoot locations. It is unfortunately rather busy during the day, but much less so at night when I do light painting.
I connected with handpan player Milly and we headed to Fisher’s Close, an area I had scouted online. I took my time to find my composition, which is especially important for light painting given how long it takes to shoot all the frames for a single image.
If I had to shoot this again, I would try different pose for Milly, as I’m not quite happy with the pose I chose at the time.
We then headed to St Giles Cathedral. I had done some light paintings at that location before, but I was not entirely happy with the results. Since we were in the neighbourhood, I decided to have another go at it. Fortunately the lights were off so it afforded me a lot of leeway in choosing my camera settings. It’s pretty easy to turn the lights on in Photoshop.
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