Post #395164 by KreepyTiki on Sat, Jul 19, 2008 3:45 PM

Here's a couple new lighting touches...

This shot was taken with semi daylight, so you see more than you normally would (and, yes, I PhotoShopped Tweety OUT! :lol:), but I added little lights behind the hanging plant because, at night, it all goes just TOO dark over there.

Also: A LITTLE SECRET...

You know how damn expensive float-lights are, right? Well, my Tiki-On-A-Budget solution works like a charm and it's SO simple. I just slide one of those little battery-operated Stick 'n Click lights between the criss-crossing ropes and the glass float on the side that faces TOWARD the corner (and which no one really SEES) and -- voila! The perfect ILLUSION of a real float-light!

I used that technique for ALL the float-lights in Paradise Cove, and no one's ever noticed they weren't the real (and PRICEY) deal.

The pufferfish-light is REAL, however! (THAT I could AFFORD!) :D

And now for illuminating a wall-mask, which I've been WANTING to do ever since I got it, but just never wound up actually DOING until now!

That's what it looks like in normal lighting.

And then with an appropriately devilish glow...

That's crumpled aluminum foil inside the mouth which creates the reflected-light effect of glowing embers, just like the interior of the smoldering timbers in the fire sequence in the 'Pirates' ride at Disneyland. But it looks better in person than it photographs, unfortunately.

Anyway, I think it adds a necessary balancing touch.

Okay -- that's it for this latest up-date.

Cheers! :drink: