• Nov. 7, 2024, 9:29 a.m.

    What you haven't seen are the other 27 pictures which didn't come out as well. But the technique is easy. I started by reading this digital-photography-school.com/beginners-guide-to-light-painting/ and this digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-light-trails/

    Setting up the camera took some time. The best tip I can give is turn off long exposure NR. It means everything takes twice as long.

    You need a dark room because you are going to be using speeds measured in seconds (like 20). For the circles, remember to keep moving - that way, the body holding the light won't appear. The ghost was easy - I just asked the piano player to leave after 10 seconds of a 20 second shot. My camera has a countdown timer built in, so it was easy to know when 10 seconds was up.

    It is great fun to do - and you can do it in your living room.

    Alan

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    Nov. 7, 2024, 9:46 a.m.

    The colour treatment with the diagonal striping, though weird and unnatural, does make the bug stand out.

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    Nov. 7, 2024, 9:51 a.m.

    Those are fun experiments with painting with light.
    Once you start thinking about the technique, other applications will come to you.

    Nobody will ever make anything better in that regard, than the Albanian photoprapher Gjon Mili's photos of Pablo Picasso literally creating a painting with light.
    Photos made for LIFE magazine.
    I had known the images, and learned more about Mili in his birth town Korçë while visiting Albania last month.
    Google the combination of those names and be amazed.

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    Nov. 7, 2024, 9:53 a.m.

    You have just defined yourself as a true photographer: one who takes notice of the light, and how it enters a room differently on different times of day, and (bigger picture) on different times of day on different days in the year.
    Nice shadowplay and geometry is your (and our) reward.

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    Nov. 7, 2024, 9:54 a.m.

    A ghost in the woods.

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    Nov. 7, 2024, 9:55 a.m.

    haha

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    Nov. 7, 2024, 11:09 a.m.

    I think I was editing my response while you were replying to it, so you probably didn't see these questions, which I will repeat, hopeful of discussion.

    "And out of curiosity, I am wondering what you, its creator, feel like the color overlay effect adds to this image? What is your goal in using it? How did you choose the overlay? I use overlays fairly often, mostly texture but occasionally color, but differently, so I am interested in your ideas."

  • Nov. 7, 2024, 11:23 a.m.
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    Nov. 7, 2024, 12:57 p.m.

    Proposal

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    Acceptance

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    JPG, 1.4 MB, uploaded by Bryan on Nov. 7, 2024.

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    JPG, 1.8 MB, uploaded by Bryan on Nov. 7, 2024.

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    JPG, 1.4 MB, uploaded by Bryan on Nov. 7, 2024.

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    JPG, 1.6 MB, uploaded by Bryan on Nov. 7, 2024.

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    Nov. 7, 2024, 2:28 p.m.

    Good sequence!

    Out of curiosity, what does the "a" in the file name signify? My G9 doesn't do that.