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16.10.14
"I believe in springtime
I believe in dead leaves in the wind
And I know that endings
Are the best place to begin"
Priscilla by Sea Wolf
Today has been a really productive and all around great day form.
...very first attempt. BLACK DIAMOND Nano Headlight (4 LEDs), no string, just my flexible arm ;-)
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Please darken your room and click to see it in the LIGHTBOX . . . . . . . . . . . . looks muuuch better. PROMISE !
A light orb along with some light painting done on Dents Run covered bridge in Monongalia county, WV
I've wanted to try this for a while, but only recently got round to looking into it properly.
So after finding a suitable light source (a battery powered set of LED fairy lights) and modified them, this was my first attempt.
I think it worked quite well, but I need to a) do it when it's not so windy, b) perfect my spinning technique and c) find a better/darker location (although this isn't bad for 5mins walk from my door).
HCS
(c) Alistair Beavis 2015
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Out n about painting tonight with Bry { BDMbeercan }@ Hardwick park.
It's still damn spooky even when your not alone!! LOL :-)
WHEW!!! WHAT A DAY!!! WHAT A WEEK!!!
First thing this morning I was contacted by www.diyphotography.net/ about writing an Article for them on the new Programmable RGB LED Orb Tool Tutorial! So... In a scramble, I have been working on getting the tutorial spruced up a bit with more detailed photos and some added text, along with writing the article for them and getting it sent off to them! And to top it off, it will be featured on the Hack A Day website as well! ;-) So... I have totally set myself up to be contacted from all over the world again with all sorts of questions about it. Hopefully I can keep up with it all! ;-)
In the midst of it all, I had a great conversation with my friend and fellow Light Painter from San Francisco, Julian Cash! He is the founder of The Aurora Light Painters that were featured on America's Got Talent last week performing Light Painting in front of MILLIONS of people and is a really awesome person! I am so excited for all of them! The audience and judges LOVED what they did and they were voted to "GO TO VEGAS!!!" :-)
Julian is one of the most energetic and positive people I have had the pleasure of meeting and I can't wait to see what they come up with in their next act on AGT!! It is an awesome time to be involved in Light Painting! Wooo Hooo!! It has really been SOME week!
I have also pretty much had it with flickr group that I have been involved with fairly heavily for quite a while. The negativity in there along with the childish bickering is just a bit too much to take any longer. So I have decided to start another group and enforce some general behavior rules! So, if you are tired of the crap, and want to be involved with a positive group that is all about light painting of all types, then feel free to join in! :-) The new Group is called Light Painting Community! Just agree to a few simple rules and that is it! :-) I just know that I can't be only one that is tired of the crap. Life is too damn short for it! :-)
Now, in the midst of all of this, I have had to put my LightPaintingTools.com website on hold for a little bit. :-( I am not shutting it down completely, but it just has not taken off as quickly as I had hoped and I need to focus my attention on finding employment. :-) So... if anyone knows of a company that might be looking for someone with my skills and talents, then please send me an email. :-)
Okay... so in trying to think of something unique to use the Programmable RGB LED Orb Tool for, I reprogrammed it today and came up with this! While I was thinking about doing this, it reminded me of a song that I love to play on my Ukulele and sing as well. It is by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole and it is his version of the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". This video is a tribute to IZ after his death in 1997. A sad loss of a gentle giant but his music will live forever!
Light Painting - Single Exposure
Blackpool Northbeach sea defences. Lots of spray in the air, hence the blue haze around the orb. It was also very windy, the camera got blown over but survived with only a cracked UV filter and a minor dent on the lens.
I slightly tweaked the colour during RAW conversion, so not really able to claim SOOC for this one.
Well there I was sat infront of a lovely roaring fire, having just finished a pizza hut when I got called out to work, so never one to miss an opportunity I grabbed my gear as I had clocked this bridge when driving home from there the other week.... I'm very please I did. I think I've found a new place!!
A first light painting outing with the Sony A7s ,, & using the Samyang 24mm f1.4 lens.
In the perfect company of Dave Barnsley :-)
Info :- one shot at iso 160 f5.6 177 seconds for the light painting & an extra one at iso 800 25 seconds for the foreground rocks.
Where does time go? I find it hard to believe that it has been two years already since my trip to Alaska. So many Images from this trip I haven't shared, and nice to be able to return to my Lightroom catalogs to re-live the memories from this trip and look back on all the other cool places I have visited. Here is an image of an LED orb and somewhat of a self portrait of me creating it. These kind of images are always fun to shoot.
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Canon 5D MK III
Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fish-eye
Anchorage, Alaska
Whoops! A little bit blown out with the highlights! I could have used Photoshop to change the levels, but I want to show this expsoure in its raw state as it was captured. The only 'Photoshopping' was to resize from the large RAW pic and a watermark.
If I remember rightly I lost track of where I had already been and ended up going around again! It's given me a very precise orb though! Starting to love these now :)
Tried experimenting with a different way tonight! Trying to give it a 'signature' look and feel, much easier on the arms this way as well.
Press F to 'Fave' (go on, you know you wanna!)
Press L to view Large on 'black'
Orbs may be old school, but domes are quite the new school in lightpainting, well they are for me anyway ;-))
A bit of a different angle to my previous post & a touch darker too, trying to bring out the light detail emminating from behind the lighthouse...
An experiment in light & contrasts, see how it goes :-/
I must get longer wellies too, they were so full of sea water !!! lol ;o)
Exif data
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure 217
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 24 mm
ISO Speed 100
Pretty sure my work is haunted? Was taking a photo of a bench, like you do and when I looked at the picture there was some freaky shhhhit going on!!
Sketchy liightman and orb as it has been a while.
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Down the beach with clear skys and loads of moonlight... The first time I've had a chance to shot in these condition... I love it. I think this was the best night I've had with my camera.
Just as tide was turning... Very cold sea again... I wish I lived somewhere hot!! Check out the chinese lantern flying past!!
Last shot of the session, after an attempt to make a line of orbs receding back down the tunnel failed abysmally.
Light painting is a blast. There's a lot to be said for drinking beer and spinning orbs in an orchard or swinging flaming metal around your head under a waterfall in the middle of the night.
Lately my orbs have started to shape up and I'm getting a little bit better with the lighting (now if we could just get a clear night with a full moon around here). Thanks to the talented people linked below whose light painting has inspired me. Thanks. This orb's for you. Check out their photostreams and be amazed.
we had a light painting night here in the MacBride house hold.
85 second exposure, ISO 600,
using a small key ring LED ( that my buddy Danny gave me) on a piece of string, i only spun the light for the first 10 seconds then rushed back to light the forest with a torch.
thanks Danny :~)
Just sorting through some pictures and found this and liked it...It's from the "Disney Village" Disneyland Paris.
Light Orb, with sparks coming out from it!
This has given me a few ideas, hopefully they will be put into practice soon!
This is my first attempt to get a ball of light in my room! Thanks Denis for the tutorial!
Someone should have mentioned that gloves are an essential tool... :-)
Straight Out Of The Camera
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Il mio primo tentativo di sfera di luce... nella mia camera!
Qualcuno avrebbe dovuto dirmi che usare i guanti mi avrebbe salvato dalle vesciche! :-)
Nessuna post-produzione.
More fun late night early morning around 3:30 am no moon as the clouds are in pitch black super un easy as i hear large things creeping in the woods to my left and right but be hind the orb is a huge meadow, the kind that you don't want to be in at this time of morning in this dense area
Orange orb's by Kev
Light trails by me making 2 passes in the car.
Rock faces lit by super bright LED torches.
First try at doing a light orb...Didn't have any led lights so used a glow stick...The glow stick I used had been in the freezer so wasn't as bright as it could have been.And the wiggly bits were when I was trying to grab the glow stick at the end.Wind was blowing a gale and about a minute after this the heavens opened and it poured down rain and had me dashing for cover...Definitely will try this again..Fun stuff!!