Thursday, April 12, 2012

"Splashed fix in your eyes? Wash it out with light!"

So for this week's studio lighting photo, I thought I'd give painting with light a shot (and cause the darkroom wasn't occupied...). I went in without an ounce of inspiration, so I just played around with the shutter speed and a tiny little flashlight that looked more like a flying saucer. So I set my shutter speed to "30 at first and just sort of played around, experimented, and spun in circles and such. Any-who, after playing around I just sort of walked over to the eye washing station and set up my tripod and Nikon D300 with an aperture of f-29 and a shutter speed of 30 seconds, using my hand held light source, being a tiny flashlight, and I pretended to make it look like water was spurting out of the machine like it was on a mission to wash out a billion eyes. Yeah, so turns out I really liked it, and how it emphasized the normal activity of the eye washing station, illuminating it, and gave it life/action while being off. I kept the black area around to give the subject a glowing effect and show the contrast. Oh and I almost turned it on while doing this (sacrifices, sacrifices).

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