[Leica] Santa's Watching

[Chris Crawford]

Thanks, Jay. When I drove past it, it caught my eye and I immediately
turned around and knocked on their door. This is on the street my parents
live on, where I grew up, so I drive by here all the time (I live around
the block in the same neighborhood, in my grandma¹s old house!). Yesterday
was the first time I saw the Santa in the window and I knew I HAD to have
a photo.

It was a hard one to get. The Santa is A LOT brighter than the windows,
and the windows were a lot brighter than the house (it was nearly dark, as
the sun had just set). I ended up making an exposure for the house, one
for the windows, and one for Santa and combining them using layer masks to
balance it all out. Took a while to edit so it looked natural!

-- 
Chris Crawford
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
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On 12/20/14, 12:03 AM, "Jay Burleson" <leica at jayburleson.com> wrote:

>Yikes!
>Best one yet, Chris.
>
>Jay
>
>On 12/19/2014 1:30 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>> Last night, I photographed this creepy disembodied Santa Claus head in
>>the
>> window of a house in my neighborhood.
>>
>> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=2000
>>
>
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