Passage

[Daniel Matthews]

 

[Pete Askew]

Aha, I was beginning to miss these painting with light shots. Nice effects. Where were they taken?

 

[Daniel Matthews]

Bottom of my garden! We have this small archway that leads to the shed.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

The ghost light effect in #2 is excellent - what light sources were you using?

 

[Daniel Matthews]

Just these:

 

[Hamish Gill]

That's a very effective painting with light effect!
And 2 nice shot ideas! Maybe some sort of crop might work for both of them??

 

[Daniel Matthews]

Thanks Hamish, I did think about cropping.

And to save double posting, here is another shot from the same night. Not great, I think I need to reshoot this to get it how I wanted it.

 

[Hamish Gill]

I like the swirlyness with the straight edges ... Icant quite work how your doing it?

Little over exposed though that one I think?

 

[Daniel Matthews]

Totally agree with you, that's why I feel I should reshoot it.

 

[Hamish Gill]

When you do, I be interested to see how your doing that light effect if you can take some photos that demo it a bit more clearly ... It's a very ... Erm "graphical" ... I'm not sure that's the work I'm looking for ... Effect ... Those shapes have been used in a lot of tv advertising not so long ago ... Maybe for bt Internet? Somthing like that??

 

[Daniel Matthews]

I would be more happy to give you a "behind the scenes" view of how it's done when I retake the photo.

 

[Paul Lange]

Interesting stuff, are you using one long exposure and then turning on the differing light sources at different times throughout? I did see an excellent tutorial on the web once but cant find it now.