Night & Light

Camera in Motion; 6/7/11, 10:18 pm; Rexburg, Idaho; f/36; 3 sec; Nikon D3100

Magic Top; 6/9/11, 11:16 pm; Rexburg, Idaho; f/25; 5 sec; Nikon D3100; slightly increased the saturation in Camera Raw

Templelights; 6/8/11, 10:03 pm; Rexburg, Idaho; f/29; Nikon D3100; 15 sec; tripod; combined two pictures so I could get the blue in the sky, added a mask and blended them in Photoshop

Butterfly1; 6/9/11, 10:46 pm; Rexburg, Idaho; f/14; 8 sec; Nikon D3100; tripod; increased the blues in Camera Raw

Butterfly2; 6/9/11, 10:47 pm; Rexburg, Idaho; f/11; 13 sec; Nikon D3100; tripod; increased blues in Camera Raw

Lightbike; 6/10/11, 11:30 pm; Rexburg, Idaho; f/20; 20 sec; Nikon D3100; tripod; increased the exposure in Camera raw, used an adjustment brush to darken the corner

Tron Effect; 6/10/11, 11:59 pm; Rexburg Idaho; f/29; 15 sec; Nikon D3100 tripod; increased exposure and used adjustment brush in Camera Raw to darken the background

Dumpster Hug; 6/10/11, 12:10 pm; Rexburg, Idaho; f/7.1; 15 sec; Nikon D3100; tripod

Fire Circle; 6/10/11, 10:38 pm; Rexburg Idaho; f/25; 15 sec; Nikon D3100; tripod. Increased blacks in Camera Raw.

I wasn't looking forward to this project, but I ened up having a lot of fun and I learned some cool tricks. On Camera in Motion, I used a tent light and discovered it was actually better to move the camera slow so you could get a distinct design. I used kind of the same technique with the glo-sticks on the butterfly pictures. The first one I think is really cool. I had the glo-stick held out straight so that the tip was free to move around. The second time I folded the stick up so there was a point of light. The magic top was cool. I liked when it moved across the camera screen so we started the top, and nudged it to get the effect. The lightpainting was crazy and I think we developed a new way to paint. Instead of standing back and holding lights on the subject, we stood right by the subject and moved the lights around the outline. Brandon came up with the idea, and Sara T's are better, so check out her blog. As we experimented we figured out what we liked. We found out it was better to have a large aperture (small numbers) to let in more light. It made a HUGE difference.