Friction Burn
A quick mid-week visit to my new favourite tunnel had me trying out what I had first thought, but not executed, on my first visit. I wanted there to be a larger space in the centre of the frame so then I could expose a different pattern in the middle. 1st I set up my tripod on the centre line of the tunnel at one end and lined the camera rotator with a 14mm Samyang attached. I attempted balance the rotator so that the horizontal and vertical parts of the rotated image were not too far out of the frame and not too close to the centre. I then focused on the ribs on the ceiling of the tunnel about 1/3 way into the scene and set the f-stop to f5.6 (which was too open as there was some ghosting caused by the Back Light Scanner) and removed the lens and put to one side. Swapped lens to 24-70 Sony Zeiss at 24mm f11 looking at my Digital Light Wand attached vertically to a light stand with a Bitmap image of fire playing out on it which lasts for about 6 seconds, with an 8 second delayed start.
So with the 24-70 attached, I pushed the button on the DLW then triggered the 2 second timer on my Sony A7ii, waiting for the bitmap to play I then rotated the camera 360 degrees in 6 seconds and capped the lens. I then swapped to the preset Samyang lens and uncapped. I had to move fairly quickly to get to the other end of the tunnel and used the LACE Back Light Scanner with a dark blue gel and walked slowly back to the camera lighting the tunnel as I did. Capped the lens and repeated for a 5 way rotation.
Spooky when you see someone walk past at midnight, no torch and the old railway cutting is totally unlit for about 2 miles.
_PDS5641
Friction Burn
A quick mid-week visit to my new favourite tunnel had me trying out what I had first thought, but not executed, on my first visit. I wanted there to be a larger space in the centre of the frame so then I could expose a different pattern in the middle. 1st I set up my tripod on the centre line of the tunnel at one end and lined the camera rotator with a 14mm Samyang attached. I attempted balance the rotator so that the horizontal and vertical parts of the rotated image were not too far out of the frame and not too close to the centre. I then focused on the ribs on the ceiling of the tunnel about 1/3 way into the scene and set the f-stop to f5.6 (which was too open as there was some ghosting caused by the Back Light Scanner) and removed the lens and put to one side. Swapped lens to 24-70 Sony Zeiss at 24mm f11 looking at my Digital Light Wand attached vertically to a light stand with a Bitmap image of fire playing out on it which lasts for about 6 seconds, with an 8 second delayed start.
So with the 24-70 attached, I pushed the button on the DLW then triggered the 2 second timer on my Sony A7ii, waiting for the bitmap to play I then rotated the camera 360 degrees in 6 seconds and capped the lens. I then swapped to the preset Samyang lens and uncapped. I had to move fairly quickly to get to the other end of the tunnel and used the LACE Back Light Scanner with a dark blue gel and walked slowly back to the camera lighting the tunnel as I did. Capped the lens and repeated for a 5 way rotation.
Spooky when you see someone walk past at midnight, no torch and the old railway cutting is totally unlit for about 2 miles.
_PDS5641