I'm new at this, can someone help?

[laker]

I need to show this led finger light with a white background. But the light needs to be on and show a little color on that white background. If I just use a brush and white out some area around the light hitting the table then it does not look very good. I want to make a great looking photo to put on the front of this website. I would appreciate any help at all. There is a photo now on the front of this website www.lducompany.com of the finger light but they want me to change it to have a white back ground but show the color light. Thank you.

[Ian]

Re: I'm new at this, can someone help?

I need to show this led finger light with a white background. But the light needs to be on and show a little color on that white background. If I just use a brush and white out some area around the light hitting the table then it does not look very good. I want to make a great looking photo to put on the front of this website. I would appreciate any help at all. There is a photo now on the front of this website www.lducompany.com of the finger light but they want me to change it to have a white back ground but show the color light. Thank you.

Try using a long shutter speed (maybe as long as a second - you will need to experiment) combined with flash. This will effectively be a double exposure, with the flash illuminating the physical subject and the long shutter time bringing up the brightness of the lamp. I use this trick to make LEDs (and LCD screens) show up in product shots. You will need to use a tripod. Ambient light must be low for this to work - complete darkness apart from the flash and the lamp would be ideal.

Ian