Here's some romance for you.

I decided (since it's nearly valentine's day) to take a nice photo for my girlfriend.

I'll show the photo first, then I'll tell you how I did it. :)

All you need for this is a torch/flashlight or a bike light or really any light source, and a tripod.

First off, I took a long shutterspeed photo ("30, and when I was done I just turned my camera off and back on) with an ISO of 100 and an aperture of around 7.1. This was the 'I love U', which trust me, is quite difficult to write with a bike light swinging in the air. After that I took another long shutterspeed photo and turned the angle of the camera down a bit so the next part 'eliza' would show up in the upper part of the photo.

When (after 10 attempts) I had the two photos I edited both the photos in Photoshop (CS5.5), and basically copied and pasted the eliza from one photo to the the photo saying 'I love U'. Now I had the text "Eliza I love U".

I wrote the text just as I would normally, I flipped both photos horizontally to mirror them.


I still thought it missed something... hearts!

So I went back out again and did some quick hearts which I also copied in the photo. Put a second heart in there, rotated it and I was done.
Really, it's not that difficult. The difficult part is to get the writing done properly.


I'd like to see what you guys come up with! If you like, you could post a photo or a link to your photo in the comment section below.