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To avoid confusion with some group invitations, all of my images are created from blank. Any image from a photo is clearly marked as such.
For assignment: "Man Made Symmetry"
These were made by me on the back patio..
“Immature Photography” in comments has kindly pre-empted my posting of this with various links on Light Domes..
As the links show this was a closely guarded secret by the very clever inventor of this light painting technique but the internet doesn’t hold a secret for long.
I used an old bicycle wheel, fifteen 3volt LED’s, two 9volt batteries, a 12V switch, some wire and tape plus a length of threaded rod.
I fixed a length of threaded rod through the axle housing with a lock nut either side so that it protrudes on one side to a distance roughly equal to the wheel radius and about 100mm the other side.. this is where you mount the switch.
Wire the batteries in series i.e. Pos to Neg To Pos to Neg so the output is 18Volts then wire the 3volt LED’s into 3 separate groups of 5 and connect to the batteries via the switch.
Space the LED’s around the rim evenly and wire them in groups to the batteries via the on/off switch.
My Method..
Wear dark clothing, mark out on the ground where you want to centre the domes, set the camera for remote shutter and in bulb mode, set the focus manually, use a low ISO (200) and a smallish aperture..around f/14, place the wheel with the lights away from the camera, i.e. long axle pointing at camera, fire the shutter, switch the lights on and give the wheel one or two ground rotations then turn it off. Repeat procedure for as many light domes as you like then close the shutter.
I'm not sure what caused the red on these rocks. It did not seem to be human caused. These rocks look like hands and/or feet to me.
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It's been a while since I've participated in any Flickr group on a regular basis. A few years ago, life started getting in the way and life kinda snowballed. However, I decided this year might give me enough time to dip my toe back in the water. The past three years or so I've been taking pictures mostly of and for friends and family. I enjoy it, but I also miss getting out on my own and simply photographing things that catch my eye. I'm hoping being in this 52 weeks group helps change that.
I really think adhering to the themes will help push me to improve my skills. In the past, I didn't often follow the suggested themes when I played in 52 or 365 groups. In fact, some of you may remember the year I did an entire 52 week project photographing beer. I can't promise you that beer won't make an appearence at some point during the year, but I am pushing myself to wander outside my comfort zone with this project and try to do things that are new to me.
This is my take on the "abstract" theme of week 1. Like some of you have already done, I noticed the Christmas lights that I hadn't yet taken down and thought that might be something worth playing with. To achieve this photo, I planted my camera on the tripod in front of the tree and set a long exposure with a 2 second timer. I then rotated the camera through the long exposure, which created the circular effect. I found that 2-3 seconds was a good enough time to get a nice rotation on the camera. I adjusted the contrast, exposure and color temp in post processing, and here we go. I hope you like it.
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