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This started out as a UCM (unintentional camera movement) shot while wandering around one of the University quarters in Oxford, late in the evening. I love to imagine those late-night academics settling down to nights of creative cogitation… it’s not all port and formal dinners, I guess.
It was a scrappy photograph (rated as one star which is barely keepable in my estimation), but looking back at it I rather liked the colours and shapes in the image so I thought I would have a play.
The play, as ever, turned out to be a bit of a marathon over several days. Out a fit of magnanimity, I shall spare you the horrible details (and results). Today I thought I would try Topaz Studio as I hadn’t been there for a while, and I quickly was reminded of how much fun this suite of filters is.
This image is based on the Dramatic Black and White preset that comes with the software, but I have reduced the opacity to let some of the original colours come through, giving it a washed-out look.
Topaz Studio is unsupported now, alas, and hasn’t been updated in a fair while so I am rather hoping some filter vendor will take it over as it’s quite unique and offers so much. Someone said that it’s available free now, or at least on a trial that never seems to end so, if you are interested, it may be worth adding to your collection.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday and 100x.
Just messing around with some old sparklers and a yellow light bulb. Inspired by an evening listening to Gavin Hoey!
New technology! We now need to use the new energy efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFB). I shot this under an incandescent lamp for general illumination with a high intensity lamp shining through the spirals of the CFB.Then played with it in Photoshop!
Textures: T9, T12, T17 in my set (Free Textures by TCP)
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Lightbulb S: bit of fun with an earlier lightbulb shot trying to get the right texture and tone to the light in post. The "high key" background really brings out the shot =)
i just had my favourite photoshoot to date with Sammie.
very little editing was done to these.
the lightbulb and my lens did most of the magic.
i am very pleased and very happy in general today.
p.s. tell me your favourites i may want to post one from below:
An image taken from the bottom of the lamp light staircase in Prague's Cuban Museum, looking straight up to the lightwell which is shaped like a light bulb.
A giant light bulb made with 2000+ 1x2 Trans-Clear Plate & 9' LED rope light inside. Used as a nightlight
Light Bulb Staircase, The House of the Black Madonna, Prague, Czech Republic.
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My submission to the January "Photographers in Perth" "In Homage" project.
I'm not sure if this is stretching the definition of "In Homage" but this shot was certainly inspired by three people/groups.
First, David Hobby over at Strobist and his CFL picture. He's trying to draw peoples' attention to switch to CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps) from light bulbs, I guess this is the second half of the picture! I admire David's effort in dispensing knowledge about off camera flash and forming the community that he has to promote this idea and I've certainly learned a lot from his posts and "On Assignment" articles. The method of making the bulb float in midair is pretty much identical to what he did (although I used a thin metal rod because I had less space to hide the supports - and of course I only got one try to break the bulb!).
Secondly, Graham_WA and his sound activated strobe photos. I've been meaning to do this sorta thing for a while and seeing Graham's work finally got me off my backside to actually implement it. The actual circuit I used was based on the circuit here.
Finally, Mythbusters and their ingenuity in building devices to solve a problem - in this case, to resemble their hammer swinging rig (Episode 67, original air date November 26, 2006). Sure they get the odd thing wrong (and generally they revisit it anyway) but just the sheer energy and comedy that goes into each episode is great I think.
Strobist info:
Minolta AF4000 strobe below left on minimum power and reflected back by a white sheet on the right, triggered by a homemade audio trigger placed about 30cm away from bulb. Old Starblitz optical slave at camera bottom with blue gel shooting at the black cardboard background. Lightbulb itself is a 100W 240V bulb powered from a 30V current limited power supply (in case the hammers short the bulb out). Exposure was 8 seconds with the bulb broken at about the 7.5 second mark.
More setup details coming soon if there's any interest ...