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Light Painting Stravaganza @ Middle Head Fort - Part II - Steel Wool...

Part II here: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=42332

After our experiments with all manner of battery powered light we moved onto experimenting with burning steel wool. We started with the very very fine (0000) grade stuff indoors and moved onto the coarser medium grade stuff outdoors for some epic spins (thanks Gerry )

In one of the small tunnels with lots of interesting textures and features inside we tried a combination of blue EL wire and spinning wool

Spiral - 225 second exposure (12mm @ f/8 @ ISO 100)



We moved to another room where we could spin into the room from a side corridor and photograph from within the room, I also switched up to my 'ultra' ultra wide so I could go out to 8mm and go huge!

Steel Works - 24 second exposure (8mm @ f/8 @ ISO 100)



Then we moved back outdoors to finish of the evening with some huge spins in the open area where we did the dome earlier

Spider - 16 second exposure (8mm @ f/8 @ ISO 100)



Reign of Fire - 24 second exposure (8mm @ f/8 @ ISO 100) - at which point we were considering the sanity of being bombarded with flaming pieces of metal... go hard or go home I reckon



One of the definite advantages of a light painting session is that since it takes literally minutes (10) to both setup and take each shot, there are relatively few shots to post process when you get home - I had less than 50 shots for the whole evening

A huge thanks to Kath for instigating and organising the shoot and for doing so much prior research and bringing an awesome level of goodies for the evening - I don't think we even got to using over half of it - more fuel for a future session I reckon

Comments and Suggestions welcomed...

I prefer the first one because it has more
visual impact than the rest. It has movement,
colours, and the texture in the details of the
floor and walls.

These are worthy of an exhibition. They are brilliant!

zafra52 wrote:I prefer the first one because it has more visual impact than the rest. It has movement, colours, and the texture in the details of the floor and walls.

Thanks Zafra - yeah that tunnel has some real character and was a good call (by someone other than me )

Matt. K wrote:These are worthy of an exhibition. They are brilliant!

Thanks Matt - Gerry does some great work here - who knew it was going to get this large - when I rocked up to this spot which is a fair way back and above the centre of the action with the 8mm I was thinking I'm sooo wide (everyone else (except Gerry) was sporting 17 to 100mm) I'm just going to have a speck in the middle of the blackness. I think Gerry told me to stick with wide - good call...

What a great set of images.