In Memoriam: ice.in.the.cider
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Colourful bubbles at the O2.
The writing is made up of a matrix of tiny lights - the words scroll past quickly, left to right.
This was very strange to photograph. With the naked eye, the text was very bright, clear and easy to read. However, I could not get a photo to reflect the real-life appearance. No matter what I changed (shutter speed, polarizer, viewing angle...) the writing always came out very dim, barely standing out from the background, and so very hard to read. Nothing for it, therefore, than some heavy-handed photoshopping to get it looking 'right'.
Go there, find the bubbles (right inside the main entrance), take some photos and see what I mean. Weird.
The only explanation I can come up with is that the writing appears bright to the naked eye because of some sort of 'vision persistence' effect. However, I couldn't re-create this using a slower shutter speed, so I guess the effect is to do with your brain's perception, rather than a physical optical effect.
O2_bubbles_IMG_0793
Colourful bubbles at the O2.
The writing is made up of a matrix of tiny lights - the words scroll past quickly, left to right.
This was very strange to photograph. With the naked eye, the text was very bright, clear and easy to read. However, I could not get a photo to reflect the real-life appearance. No matter what I changed (shutter speed, polarizer, viewing angle...) the writing always came out very dim, barely standing out from the background, and so very hard to read. Nothing for it, therefore, than some heavy-handed photoshopping to get it looking 'right'.
Go there, find the bubbles (right inside the main entrance), take some photos and see what I mean. Weird.
The only explanation I can come up with is that the writing appears bright to the naked eye because of some sort of 'vision persistence' effect. However, I couldn't re-create this using a slower shutter speed, so I guess the effect is to do with your brain's perception, rather than a physical optical effect.