Ball of light photography

[Freeskier]

Cool video on some neat photographs. He talks about his life a bit at first, photography talk starts at about 5 minutes in. Hope it's not a repost, did a quick search didn't see anything.

Enjoy, and if anyone can embed this format video that'd be great lol.

http://www.wimp.com/lightphotography/

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

That's pretty cool!

[aquamarine]

That's pretty awesome. I should try something like that around here in Tokyo, would be some frickin' great locations.

[aquamarine]

It's not much, but it's a start.

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/206765_10150156973837348_515922347_6499566_5616811_n.jpg


http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/205790_10150156977037348_515922347_6499580_1376913_n.jpg
And yes I'm aware of the dust-spots, these are just the images I threw up on Facebook. They are taken here in Asakusa, Tokyo on the 11th floor of my apartment building.

Nikon D7000
Tamron 10-24mm
Bulb with cord trigger
f16
ISO 800

[jampack]

Originally posted by aquamarine
It's not much, but it's a start.

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/206765_10150156973837348_515922347_6499566_5616811_n.jpg


http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/205790_10150156977037348_515922347_6499580_1376913_n.jpg
And yes I'm aware of the dust-spots, these are just the images I threw up on Facebook. They are taken here in Asakusa, Tokyo on the 11th floor of my apartment building.

Nikon D7000
Tamron 10-24mm
Bulb with cord trigger
f16
ISO 800

Those are actually pretty good for a start! I wanna try it too maybe tonight. I'm going to experiment.

[aquamarine]

Post it up, let's see. Tomorrow night I'm on a 'date' with a videographer from the states, heading out to one of the river parks and going to see how many of these balls we can create. I should point out too that these two images I made were with a 1000 yen ($12) LED flash-light swinging on a she-lace.

[mikejoe]

its not easy as one would think... I went out the other night and tried different ideas as far as turning to make it one ball... but this is as close as I came... and I totally forget what it is I did...

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5189/5628098946_b1fbf37342_b.jpg

[aquamarine]

Clean your lens and I'll clean mine ;)

ANYWAY, cool shot! What were you using?

We were using one traffic-wand (the super blue here) and a few glow-sticks... turns out red glow-sticks suck crap. I should point out too that it was SO dark here that with your naked eyes, even after about 10 minutes, you could see nearly NOTHING.


http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/215785_10150157962867348_515922347_6507578_782626_n.jpg


http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/217545_10150157962952348_515922347_6507579_4909625_n.jpg


http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/206311_10150157963702348_515922347_6507584_7859771_n.jpg


http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/217468_10150157963812348_515922347_6507585_2263329_n.jpg


http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/216000_10150157963887348_515922347_6507586_5802883_n.jpg
What's that you ask? Radiation... I'm in Tokyo after-all ;)

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/207757_10150157963997348_515922347_6507588_1782028_n.jpg


http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/215063_10150157964092348_515922347_6507590_3590487_n.jpg
Not ball of light... but still fun to do.

[mikejoe]

Cool! looks like you figured out a technique!

I was using a small 3-LED flash light on a shoelace.