Archive for the ‘Time exposure’ Category
June 5, 2008 – Railroad Bridge at Night
A night shot along the Russian River in Healdsburg, CA. This from the first set of time exposure shots with my Canon 40D. I tweaked the color and did some luminance smoothing in Lightroom. The shoot ended when the patrolling police officer informed me "Technically, the park is closed after sunset." He was really nice considering it was 11:30 at night.
May 24, 2008 – Switching to CFLs
I went through a few more lightbulbs than planned to get this, the clear ones are much more dramatic than frosted.
Using my HiViz sound trigger.
May 23, 2008 – Balloon Pop
I got a sound trigger kit from HiViz the other day and finally put it together. Any loud sound causes it to trigger the flash.
This is one of my first trials with it. I put flour in the balloon before inflating it, then rubbed it to create static electricity to make the flour stick all around the inside. Then a time exposure and a pin. Fun!
April 29, 2008 – SFO to BOS at Mach 15
(This is a video, click on the image to play it.)
I shot this with my Olympus 770SW pointed out the window during a cross country flight and landing in Boston. The camera can sustain shooting at about 1fps in its lowest resolution mode, so I let it rip for as long as I could hold down the release before losing all feeling in my finger.
Unfortunately the weather didn’t cooperate. It starts with a nice view somewhere over MA, then dips into the clouds before emerging over a very bumpy approach to BOS. There are a few missing frames from when I had to reinvigorate my hand or the turbulence knocked the camera about too much.
So, this is a first try – I’m going to perfect this eventually with a better system for holding the camera against the window, and next time I’ll use a camera with a locking cable release (which my Olympus can’t use). And longer exposures to get some motion blur in there would be nice, too.
April 20, 2008 – A Little Night Driving
March 31, 2008 – Breakout
November 26, 2007 – The Break
November 18, 2007 – Ghost on the Tracks
November 9, 2007 – The Wedding Photographer
This is an experimental photo I took at Dave and Bev’s wedding. I piggybacked on the wedding photographer’s flash – knowing when she was going to take a photo (mmm, cake!), I took a 1.5 second exposure with no flash. Her flash froze the action for me, but allowed me to get the blur of action.
I framed the shot to include the official photographer to help tell the story of the moment.