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Myself & Bri had a look out to Seaham beach & spun up a few orbs last night. Good fun & wet feet were the order of the day LOL :-)
Day 800 woot woot, it's been a long and winding road but here we are at my 800th daily photo, with a bit of wire wool and some v24 numbers coming together to make up a celebration of 800 hundred days of madness that has been my challenge thus far :)
Well thats in now for me until well after Christmas. It was going to be it earlier but everyone headed of to bed at around 10 so I headed out for a hour down the beach.
Best viewed on black.
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you all have healthy one, and a prosperous new year.
Trying out different ideas tonight the experiment with light definately came out best. Roy made this neat orb of light! Thanks for your brilliant technique :)
A very colorful FHDR processing of this OM-D light painting. Think I prefer this version. Or maybe the 16:9 cutout.
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Would be great to get your vote / support / stars for this (and that) picture at the Olympus OM-D Photography Contetst (May 2013)! You can log in with your facebook account, in case you have one. And you can win an Olympus OM-D!
Bored after late shift @ work, so I decided to try out some new light toys {as you do!!! lol} :-)
The weather was a bit windy & rain was not far off, so I headed for a pedestrian tunnel that I'd noticed before at Sedgefield.
The £1.89 Haloween light toy I found earlier in the week at the local shops worked out quite well for the floor & walls, off to buy a couple more now as spares :-)))
Nearly SOOC, colour temp changed from 4600 -8 to 4650-78 & exp etc tweeked in ACR.
Opened in PS5, no adjustments except for the crop, border & text. Job done :-)))
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure 263
Aperture f/10.0
Focal Length 17 mm
ISO Speed 100
On my new favorite bridge again... Not to much time but needed to feed the addiction again before work in the morning!!
It has been raining pretty hard here for the past few days. I think we received somewhere around 5 inches yesterday evening in a very short period of time! It was coming down hard! While that was going on, I was working on a new orb tool that I have been wanting to put together for a while.
Introducing the Programmable RGB LED Orb tool! Arduino Microcontroller driven and able to produce a range of 2 million colors! :-)
I still have more plans for this in the future, but this is the first step in testing it out. Something appropriate to follow the rains. :-)
Light Painting - Single Exposure
The tutorial to make one of these tools is located HERE
Gardening wire, kevlar wick, barbecue lighting fluid and centrifugal force for the orb, LED Lenser P7 for the stones. Backlit by light pollution. Straight off the RAW file, no photoshopping other than a bit of noise reduction.
Castlerigg 'Sanctuary', looking east. Had an impromptu audience of about 12 for this one, including a bunch of well heeled visitors from overseas and a couple who were obviously totally hacked off that they couldn't get the place to themselves without some nutter appearing and waving LEDs and things about. As if the pseudo-druids weren't bad enough...
Light Painted Stanley Park's Band Stand. Slightly miffed with composition, but it's a keeper :)
5mins approx of running around making sure I didn't show up on this shot! Take into consideration it's 11.30pm and it's virtually pitch black, I fell over on the steps before I got the orb shot! (much to the amusement of Aran and Mark). The environment around is purely lit from Light Pollution from Blackpool, but I used a White Balance Kelvin of around 2900K to tone down the orange in the sky. Also if you look closely at the steps when you view it large, you can see my kit bag and Marks kit bag! I've also used a slight adjustment in Camera RAW to introduce a little more light, other than that this is photo is SOOC minus the watermark and a slight crop.
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Single exposure and using my latest Orb tool.
A great day and night out with my best mate, Jack the dog. Walked 7 miles during the day then as it got dark we waited for the orbs to appear.
Richard Price - GB
Another from my blue hour light painting mission in the pine woods at wells-next-the-sea.
Srobist
SB-700 camera right, full power, 24mm.
Headed down to Sutton Harbour on the Barbican tonight, with Dan Sharp.
This is tonight's orb attempt.
Well guys it took me ages to figure out how it was done and how to create one in this form but I took some time tonight while trying some other things and was able to get it =]. I didn't do this so much for the scene as much as for practice, any comments you have would be appreciated.
The reason for the title is that I just realized I used all of the colors associated with 3D glasses.
Definitely one of my favorite pictures I have taken. Never thought a CD could make such a great picture..
A little bit of fun this evening with some friends in my favourite tunnel under the M6 with some wire wool and my beloved V24
Out n about painting tonight with Bry { BDMbeercan }@ Hardwick park.
It's still damn spooky even when your not alone!! LOL :-)
Out & about after work - light painting :-)
I tried spinning the orb behind the 2 central pillars, but there was just not enough room to spin an led & sparkler, never mind a cat !!! ;-)
Gear ----
Purple LED orb spinner - sparkler - 2x lenser V24's behind the outer pillars set on pink - gel torch set on purple - camera & remote - 1x guy running around like a headless chicken !!! ;-)
Single exposure taken in RAW - tweaked in Lroom then exported to Potatoeshop for straightening & minor sharpening & contrast adjustments etc....
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28.10.14
I almost forgot to upload today! I took this a few hours ago and just lost myself in my homework. I had troubles editing todays photo, I just didn't know how I wanted to styles it. Either way I think it's a cool concept. A few versatile ideas within it.
... in Ulm, Germany.
Juggling with glowballs and torches looks completely different when combined with light orbs in a (too) long exposure.
Many thanks for the idea and invitation to Juli, Michael, Simon, Felix, Marcin, Dani & Stella and greetings to all jugglers that took part in this event. In need a little more time for the rest of my pictures. This one seems to be one of the best anyway.
Had a chance to take a few people out to show some light painting. As I was busy, I did not get to many shots. But when I had a chance, I managed to grab a few. You can see the tripods and the ghostly figures, nice and close to the action.
93.0 sec at f/5.6 ISO 200 EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Copyright 2012
A bit of a full on "painting" fun in the old derelict barn the other night with Bryan
A good collaboration of ideas saw myself spinning a classic orb & Bry painting one of his multi coloured fern tree thingumabobs, then I flung a smidge of wool into the open doorway & Bry gelled the walls & ceiling with colour, & lastly we both gelled a blue floor across the scene to finish!!!!
Finally, release shutter remote, look at camera LCD & say Oooooo.......... Good fun :-))
Exif data
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure 205
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 17 mm
ISO Speed 160
Here is the shot that made the footprints that are on clear display in last nights upload!!! For AndyK! aka Uncle Andy
Home and somewhat settled at last! :-)
What a trip!!! 12 Days of travel and 5146 Miles across the southwestern United States! Including the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California! But even 12 days was barely enough time to make it to only the major sites along the way.
This shot was taken the night of our first stop in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah. This is on the eastern side of Utah near the Utah / Colorado border and is sort of a warm up collaboration between John (jah~) and I. I had picked up John at his place near Denver earlier in the day and this is where we ended up after a beautiful drive through the Rocky Mountains.
I know, so where are the arches!?! Ha! Well, there is actually one in the rock formation that is second from the left side of the photo it just cannot be seen from this angle. There are also a few more directly behind the camera. This park is suppose to have over 2 thousand stone arches. It is definitely a gorgeous place to visit! Both Day AND Night! :-)
I was running a time lapse camera on the dash of my truck for most of the trip and with all of the photos from it and from my Nikon, I have about 28 thousand photos to deal with! Of course, most of those are for the time lapse but it will still take a while to go through them all. ;-)
More to come! :-)
Light Painting - Single Exposure
Playing around a bit more with the Programmable RGB LED Orb Tool tonight. I said it has a 2 million color range... but the colors on the dark end of the scale really do not stand out very much at all. I suppose they would work okay with a higher ISO, but then they would just be... well, brighter! :-) So maybe I better scale that statement back a bit. Probably more like 1 Million usable colors! Think I should toss it!?
Is there anyone that would like to see a photo of the tool itself? Or how about a tutorial on how to make one!?
Light Painting - Single Exposure
The tutorial to make one of these tools is located HERE
Same old location, but under the watchful eyes of my Padawan who came along to see how I do what I do. Funnily enough he took to it like a duck on water and even had a home made orb tool. Felt really cool being asked if they could come along, especially as he travelled a good 30 miles into the Welsh hills to meetup! I felt like Yoda for a few hours lol
On another note, I've manged to sell some of my work to an American book publishing company! They approached me last week!!!! How cool is that? Must be doing something right for a change.
Taken Monday at Moore Camera Club, first time I’d done any photography using lights and long exposure, learnt a lot that night, definitely will be experimenting with more of this type of photography, thanks Ken Blease for doing all the hard work too with all the swinging around.
Dear friends, light painters and photographers!
It's almost time to celebrate! Only about 130 clicks are missing and I am too impatient to just wait or post some other pictures. So I have decided to post my "jubilee picture" right now and I hope and think, with this picture it shouldn't take too long to reach the 50.000 clicks of my flickr stream. So please help! And ...
What could be better than 5 light orbs to celebrate 50.000 clicks on flickr? :-)
Many, many thanks for all your previous visits of my pictures and interest in my flickr stream! I hope you will come back from time to time in the future. Although there's not so much going on here at the moment.
This picture is a corporate work of David Kracht and me. It would have been almost impossible or at least much more difficult and dangerous for me to do it alone and with my own camera. Together this was real fun - I hope not only for me. ;-) We should repeat this soon, Dave! Where to go next?
More pictures of this location will follow. Not yet. But some day.
UPDATE: You did it! THANKS!
Creating this orb was great fun. I took this on Saturday night whilst out with Rob Pickstone and Jed Wootten. There were a few people milling around at this point and we get quite a few odd looks.
This is definitely one of my better orbs, its just a shame the foreground isn't lit a bit more and that the light on the bridge was so bright.
I would welcome your comments, positive or constructive.
Another attempt in creating a light orb... still imperfect.
Tones and exposure have been enhanced in Lightroom.
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Ennesimo tentativo nella creazione di una sfera di luce... ce n'è ancora molta di strada da fare! :-)
Toni ed esposizione leggermente aggiustati in Lightroom.
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30" - F/3.5 - ISO 400 - 10mm