Saruman
My idea was to represent Saruman moving the star in the sky by turning his wizard staff and making a rain of magical sparks. Create the photo was very hard. The final image is a pano of 3 horizontal shoot. For each of them I had to make the steel-wool effect, trying to make it identical to be able to join the shoot together into a pano. This was very hard, especially because the sparks move with no specific path and you cannot choose where will they go. I needed many attempts, but I was finally able to complete the foreground. Then leaving the camera in the last position, I started the 4 hours shoots for the startrail.
Stefano Pellegrini, Italy, Saronno
