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| Sweeping up light
just playin over a few beers...Involved a camera, tripod, flashlight, tape, and aluminum foil
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LaurieE
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Wow!! This is great! I'd love the details on how you made it happen..If you wouldn't mind sharing!
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Most excellent! Very inventive and whimsical. |
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RowanDu
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Ive been meaning to try this. |
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Its basically a 5-15 second exposure in a completely dark room with a flash light. I used aluminum foil to disperse the light into the shape I wanted as seen below. This is a mixture of three different photographs. The first I just exposed the broom and attempted to blow out to very bottom center. The next two shots were sweeping motions done with the flash light laying flat on the floor. Just run it across the floor out of the frame. This takes some playing around to get. The two shots I used were actually the second and third attempt out of like 80. From there it was into TIFF format and into Photoshop CS2. I cut out the broom and jacked up the contrast and saturation. I edited the two brush photos to black out any exposed things in the shot like my stove that picked up some stray light. The first swoop was changed to blue and made very bright. Then I did the same to the second and make an opaque layer over the blue. It resulted in that kind of foggy texture. There was a lot of playing with a soft eraser to get things blended. I wanted to watch some TV so I ran it through neat image and gave up on it for the night. I'll probably clean it up a little this weekend and order a 20x24" print for my living room. It'll go nicely with my waterdrop photograph!
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Lastly... I don't want to take all the credit for this idea. Andy over at DGrin turned me on to painting light, and this is my version of it. As soon a saw his photo I immedatly thought about making mine look more fluid, and multicolored kinda like norther lights. I think its getting close... to be continued...
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wow very Creative!! |
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LaurieE
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Spring, TX | This is SO cool! Thanks for sharing your technique but at which point did you drink the beer!?? It might be the secret! HAHA
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That is too cool!
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Thats really wierd because i was just looking at this a few minutes ago  ...
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yeh, ive seen similar shots done with brushes... but mine is a broom! HAHAHAH!!! ITS ORIGINIAL I SWEAR!!
I think its cool how different people end up with different results. Heck, we should do a challenge with the ol maglite trick and see what everyone can come up with!!
I wonder what fire would look like for something like this...hrmmmmm....
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What I don't understand is.. Does the Foil go behind the brush with the light? |
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Sweet! I'm gonna have to try something like that. Thanks |
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you use the foil to control the light. A flash light would expose the entire room, but a flashlight shooting through a small opening will only expose the floor. Its a way you can turn a flash light sized beam of light into a small/flat/controlled beam.
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| said by sirsloop  :you use the foil to control the light. A flash light would expose the entire room, but a flashlight shooting through a small opening will only expose the floor. Its a way you can turn a flash light sized beam of light into a small/flat/controlled beam. yeah I understand the Flashlight and the foil, but did you tape the Flashlight to the back of the Broom or did you guide it with the broom as well?
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there are three exposures used in my shot.
#1 - I opened the shutter and simply held the flash light on the broom and adjusted the shutter speed to get proper exposure.
#2& #3 - opened the shutter and ran the light on the ground with the foil facing down, so as you drag the light it will expose the sensor.
Think about it as painting light... your camera is sensitive to light, and you have a "paint brush" that shoots light out on to the canvas (the floor). The room is pitch black so wherever you have that brush when the shutter is open... thats what will get painted. #1 I shot light on the brush to paint the broom on the sensor, the rest I painted the streaks on the floor. Then put them together in CS2.
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This is the original technique sirsloop expanded upon (to good effect, I may add).
»Painting with light..this time a little different. |
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