weekly photo challenge…’illumination’
January 2013
I signed up for the weekly photo challenge with the intention of pushing myself to try some new photography techniques, and something I’ve wanted to experiment with for a while, but haven’t made time for to date is…’painting with light’.
Having read a couple of articles previously, I’d satisfied myself that it was just a matter of setting up the shot, switching off the lights and waving around a torch for a few seconds. This wasn’t the case of course! I quickly found out that neither my hiking headlamp nor our sturdy Maglite, would give the desired results. So a little frustrated, but nevertheless determined to make this work (it is a “challenge” after all)…a late night trip to the local drug store for an $8 LED torch, and a whole lot of trial and error later on the “waving around” front, yielded the images below.
I find the results quite pleasing, and I like the fact that you can create a very different look for an image by simply changing the ‘white balance’ settings in post processing. My personal favourites are the black & white conversions…what are yours?
(click on image to enlarge and scroll through)
Beautiful! 🙂
Thanks and I see from your blog you’ve taken some nice shots too!
You are welcome and thanks too! I appreciate the time you took to stop by my blog. 🙂
Stunning and beautiful!
That’s very kind – thanks, and your blog is very cool!
This is lovely!!! Never knew that was how you got shots like those. Gonna have to try this out myself!!!
Thanks…it was fun, if not a little frustrating – have patience!
Excellent interpretation!
I really appreciate your comments…thanks so much!