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Aurora's exploded in the night skies on two nights. Two CME'S hit earth's Magnetic Field and triggered two nights of amazing Aurora's. Northern WI. March 17-18 2015. Dancing Beams and colors filled the night skies.
Setup for Eruption followed Ryan Taylor's excellent Water Figure Tutorial.
I forgot to shoot the setup at the time so I have recreated it.
Out of picture, my pc is running Multisine 1.74. Using the headphone output I have then connected my pc via the Mic input to an old stereo (at the the top of the picture) which is connected to the speaker.
The speaker was wrapped in clingfilm, and a small amount of a 50:50 cornflour (cornstarch)-water mix was placed on top.
Due to the small space, I could not get the legs of my Giottos MTL9361B tripod splayed wide enough to drop the camera in line with the top of the speaker. So I moved the centre column into the lateral position and hund the camera upside down off my Manfrotto 322RC2 ball head.
The lights on the landing and bedroom behind were turned off and at f/16 I ran a 5 second exposure. Using my wireless remote shutter I triggered the camera. During the 5 second exposure I activated a 0.2 sec pulse at a frequency of 120Hz on my pc and using a PT-04 wireless flash trigger in the other hand tried to time the flash to coincide with the sound. This took several attempts to time it right, and in actual fact the final Eruption shot is actually a blend in CS3 of two images in order to increase the drama.
The ghosting in Eruption is not an artefact of blending the two images, but due to some double triggering of the flashes when I pressed the remote trigger.
The pink/orange hues in the conflour-water mix of the final shot are, I think, attributable to the flashes bouncing off the bare plaster walls. This was not intended but presumably it would have helped to soften the light as specular highlights are not too much of a problem.
The final edit involved usual adjustments in LR3.6 to saturation, levels, sharpening etc together with burning in CS3 to darken the background which in the original shot I felt was distracting.
Olympus XZ-1
1/15 sec at f/1.8
ISO 200
6 mm
Copyright 2011 Ben Gethin
My entry for day 300 of the 2009photochallenge; the theme for the day was GROWING.
The zoom blur here was not done in post. Instead, I tried to do something with the camera for a change. Turns out they have these things called zoom lenses --- remarkable, really.
Volcán Arenal, cloaked in cloud, with lightning bolts erupted to the left, starfields multiplying above, and the quiet goings-on of local Costa Rican villagers beneath.
Technically not a great starscape, but my first ever attempt back in 2011 and left the exposure running for too long (101 seconds) and was so captivated by the open skies that I didn't re-take this view. Fond memories, though.
Development notes: this uses a graduated filter added in post, and a wire has been cloned out of the lower left corner.
"If you try to hold me back I might explode: like a Dynamite"
Modelo: Viena Bozzone M
Franco Petrini Photography © 2010
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Taken with the iPhone 4 camera with Art done on the iPad
My Wolfgang Puck Dutch Oven, my favorite pot, had an explosion. I was sauteing some onions and peppers when there was loud bang followed by a second and food went flying. I rinsed the pot out and found that the enamel had blown off the bottom - all I can figure is that small holes in the enamel must have left moisture seepinand when it got hot it had a steamexplosion. I have had that pot for 8 years - oh well, time to look for new favorite.
OK, once my new camera is ready, I should have like a bazillion of these on a poster in no time. Right? Doesn't it make you a better photographer? I think there's actually a free picture-taker expert in the kit I got.
And doesn't Explore prove you're a great photographer? (Please note my sarcasm in both places.)
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
1. Weapons of Mass Dyestruction, 2. tractor, 3. pit, 4. avocado ice cream, 5. no longer single, 6. sweet grapes, 7. blueberry star, 8. passover eggs2,
9. sudden gray, 10. bridal sweet, 11. Beth's Coconut Birthday Cake, 12. post card, 13. tree fog, 14. drop of tree, 15. "Fool: A Self-Portrait", 16. Mosaic Mirror,
17. frame, 18. maple fog 2, 19. Happy Freakin' Birthday, 20. The Riddle of the Sphinx Moth, 21. Beth's Buffet, 22. Fairy Barbie Cake, 23. The Famous Thunderbird Restaurant, 24. Mom's kitchen,
25. gragger, 26. curous zap, 27. ahhh, that old favorite, 28. sad shelf, 29. watercolor sunrise, 30. frog, 31. "Can You?", 32. dogwood in snow,
33. sunset at my house, 34. dogwood, 35. the tree we call swamp oak, 36. eye, 37. Whomping Willow, 38. frost, 39. dogwood, 40. night dogwood,
41. fog, 42. fissssshhhh, 43. magnolia seed, 44. magnolia pod, 45. at the Ram's Head