Painting the Darkness

When looking at Google Analytics recently I noticed that I've been getting a lot of hits on my various light painting posts.

With this in mind and having just completed soldering up my new and improved LED ring light I thought I'd revisit this popular topic by playing around with a few shots.

I started simply by rolling the LED ring light along my bed.



This created quite a cool geometric pattern so I then started to play around a bit more.



Followed by going along the floor, up the wall and across the ceiling!



Then I ran out of ideas!!

I think I will revisit this but am thinking of getting hold of (or making) a wheel with LEDs attached as rolling the ring light along smoothly is pretty difficult. Anyway...watch this space.

By the way, if you fancy trying out some light painting and your camera has manual settings then you don't need to make anything. As I've shown before in this post you can just use a phone as your light source or any old torch etc. Below is a quick shot that I took using my iPhone.



As usual, click on the images to enlarge.

Shuffle Up and Deal

I have made an adaptation to my DIY macro-light which I used with the old Canon Powershot S2 to try out with my Canon Speedlite on the dSLR. I basically used a bigger bit of tin foil and added an elastic band!

I was just wondering what to test it out on when I saw a pack of cards on the side.

Here is a shot of my camera with the hi-tech device attached and the results of a couple of test shots. The second one really captures the action of the shuffle and the merging of the cards (click to enlarge as always).

August Bank Holiday

Had a pretty busy August Bank Holiday weekend which saw me amongst other things, meeting up with family and friends, having a few evenings out and getting out and about on the bike.

On the Saturday I had agreed to give my good friend Jon a hand to lay a new solid Oak floor. Neither of us had ever laid one of these before so after a couple of bacon rolls and getting tooled up at the local DIY store we made light work of the instructions, ripped up the carpet and got cracking.

The glue that we were using was very sticky and seemed to get everywhere but once we mastered that we managed to progress well. After a day of on our knees and plenty of measuring, hand sawing and gluing we finally laid the last piece at around 8pm. We were both really pleased with our handy work and after a quick clear up we went off down the local pub for a few well deserved pints which soon turned in to a few more...then a few more!!

Just getting in to it now...It's surprising how much thought goes in to laying these things randomly!


Finished result


Under the stairs