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Christmas lights and light trails in Regent Street, London
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One of my few shots with the signal box at this end of Exeter St Davids which is not hopelessly backlit.
50 038 runs light past the box as the late afternoon sunshine begins to fade
'Coloumn Light' art installation, part of the Copenhagen Light Festival, February 2nd - March 3rd 2018.
Partial black and white of light trails on a London street at night
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I decided this would be the next comp I would work on. There was nothing extra special about this. I liked the angle this was shot at and taking on the 3 buildings in 1 comp. I caught this as I was walking to another building I was looking to shoot. When I go into LA I am constantly looking around looking for new angles of composition. People must think something is coming from the sky as I am walking because 90% of the time I am walking and driving looking at an upward angle. The driving part is tricky but can be perfected with practice.
The number of layers and versions is an insane amount. Being new to this processing takes a lot of work to see the light, angles, shapes and luminosity. I really do enjoy looking at a shot from every angle and trying different lighting schemes. It takes some trial and error. The joy is once you find the theme and lighting scheme you want to go with the comp comes together nicely but not without many more hours of shading and highlighting to create the vision. Each building is processed individually as well as the sky but as a whole to the final outcome. I do very little global adjustments. I have never used so many selections, each building is a selection as well as windows, arches, poles, panes, ridges and sky.
I am really not sure of the hours put in, I should clock in and clock out so I know how many hours I put in on a comp but that would seem to much like work. Thanks again to Joel Tjintjellar and his Master Class Video.
How i did these ....
First of all you need to break the light bulb. I held the bulb in a bag and gently hit the bulb with a hammer. My success rate was about 1 in 3, hence buy cheap bulbs! There is another way and that's with an adjustable wrench and snap the glass at the smallest point. I believe the success rate would be a lot better than the hammer!
Once you've broken the bulb, it's a matter of choice to either clean off all the remaining glass or leave the bulb in the exact same state as first broken. If the filaments have moved, move them back in place so they are symmetrical.
I setup an old lamp stand approximately 12" in front of some black card. Attach the broken bulb, but make sure it's not plugged in! I then set the focus to manual and focused on the filaments. I used a number of various settings between f4 & f8 and a minimum shutter speed of 1/800. Set the camera to continuous shooting. No flash was used in any of these, but a couple of them I did back light the bulb but it didn't really make much difference. If anything, it gave me more pp work to do! The room also doesn't need to be pitch black, I did all of mine with natural light coming through the window!
So here goes .... Try and use a remote if you can as you have to start snapping about a second before plugging in the lamp. You literally get a couple of seconds before the bulb burns out. Hopefully this will give you about 6 shots to choose from.
Good luck all and dont forget to unplug the light before removing the blown bulb!!
FOR "darinjoedickison". Thanks you VERY much.
Turn off the light.
Just a few steps to the switch. "Clik!". Well ... Come, lie down next to me and put your head on my chest. Don't say anything. No, don'tt do anything, just listen ... Do you hear it? It is my heart to normal rhythm. Give me a kiss ... Well that's my heart happy, fast. I have always believed that each person brings light to the universe: a glance, a smile, a bright idea ... If you connect to the stream my heart when it beats so, my heart would be the single light of this: my room that is also your room. I don't need be the first to, not the last either, I just want a hollow, even only for enlightenment you.
Aida Amor Aguilera.
Apaga la luz.
Sólo unos pasos hasta el interruptor. "Clik!". Bien... acércate, túmbate y pon la cabeza en mi pecho. No digas nada. No, tampoco hagas nada, solo escucha... ¿Lo oyes verdad? Es mi corazón a ritmo normal. Dame un beso... Bien ese es mi corazón feliz, rápido. Siempre he creido que cada persona aporta luz al universo: una mirada, una sonrisa, una idea brillante... Si conectases mi corazón a la corriente cuando late así, saltarían los plomos y sería mi corazón la única lámpara de esta, mi habitación que es también tu habitación. Porque no necesito ser la primera para ti, tampoco la última, solo quiero un hueco, aunque sea para iluminarte.
Aida Amor Aguilera.
6 broken bulbs later and this is not the image i had first imagined, but as the bulbs broke the concept evolved and the finished product is actually better than planned.
strobist: 1 x sb28 in softbox behind
How i did it:
Firstly i drilled a hole into the top right of the bulb about 2mm diameter (previous attempts at smashing this with a hammer failed everytime as these are tough bulbs and the filament would just break)
then i put the bulb into the lamp holder and had my assistant (girlfriend) turn on the power switch, with the camera on burst mode i kept my finger down until the filament burnt out.
since the bulb was in a lamp holder you couldnt see the screw thread so i turned the bulb upside down in the holder (screw end upwards) and took another picture i used the upside down picture to replace the lamp holder for this final image.
Aperture was set to F16 shutter speed of 250 unable to remember the exact setting on the sb28 but sure it was set to 1/16 or 1/32
this was one of the first shots i took with my G9 several years ago. i was sitting in the living room of my parents summer home in michigan and started to mess with the overhead ligh in the family room. i put the decreased the shutter speed and was throwing the camera up and down in my lap.
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