Light Painting Experiments at Middle Head Fort…
by Rodney Campbell on Apr.06, 2013, under Life, Photography
My friend Gerry and I recently received our order of miscellaneous light painting toys from an online store in Canada. The place stocked all sorts of crazy lighting toys and implements we thought we could repurpose as tools for light painting. Basically most of the stuff is cheap chinese toys designed for children (light sabers, fibre optic wands, light wands, space guns, finger lights, spinning glow ball, light necklaces and so on). It took two months for our crap to traverse the globe and arrive here in Australia so we figured we’d go out somewhere and experiment with how some of these things looked in the dark so we could assess what works and what doesn’t and better incorporate them in future.
What follows are some of our crazy experiments on the night… These are all single shots out of camera and for most of them not a lot of post production work.
Note: These images (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.
It’s all pretty bizarre stuff – keen to hear what works for you and what doesn’t?
Time Tunnel
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 18 mm, 101.00 sec at f/8, ISO 100
Tracks
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 18 mm, 307 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100
Gerry also brought his Russian GP-5 gas masks for some added themed interest which we looked to incorporate into some of the light painting shots…
Apocalypse
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 16 mm, 26 sec at f/8, ISO 100
Warped
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 16 mm, 217.00 sec at f/8, ISO 100
Inner Space
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 20 mm, 222 sec at f/8, ISO 100
Merry Christmas!
NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 16 mm, 284.00 sec at f/8, ISO 100
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