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Electrifying Sculptures

Postby surenj on Sun Oct 31, 2010 12:11 am

Has a brief opportunity to avoid the crowds tonight. The weather was quite nasty with pretty strong sea spray which made the air quite misty. On the plus side, I got parking right in front of the park near Tamarama beach.

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Re: Electrifying Sculptures

Postby Mr Darcy on Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:24 am

#1 doesn't work for me, but I think your lighting of #2 & #3 really add something to the image. I think the light mist helped too

#3 I would prefer that the shadow behind the sculpture wasn't there. It seems at odds with the rest of the lighting. Is that the moon in shot, or a pause with your torch?
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Re: Electrifying Sculptures

Postby Wink on Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:21 am

I really like #3.
I agree with Mr Darcy about the light. The light on the ground is a little distracting.
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Re: Electrifying Sculptures

Postby stubbsy on Sun Oct 31, 2010 3:40 pm

Suren

Those second 2 are mesmerising. Had it not been for the comments from the others I'd not have realised this was done with light painting. Before I read the comments I was trying to work our how all that wispy smoke ended up there. 2 thumbs up
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Re: Electrifying Sculptures

Postby Matt. K on Sun Oct 31, 2010 4:14 pm

Last 2 are outstanding! Immaculate technique and beautifully creative. Take a bow.
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Re: Electrifying Sculptures

Postby biggerry on Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:07 pm

Suren, that last one is very nicely done, great concept, the only issue I have is with the excessive light foreground and grass, I would just PP darken that and it would be steller!

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Re: Electrifying Sculptures

Postby Big V on Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:09 am

Could you please explain how much of this is done on location and if any is post. Number 3 works best for me.
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Re: Electrifying Sculptures

Postby surenj on Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:54 pm

Thanks everyone for your feedback.

I will have a look at darkening the foreground a bit.(on my desktop) I find it's clumsy to do adjustments on a laptop with a trackpad...

Big V, this is done with a EL wire (for electricity) and torch (non diffused) just to illuminate the sculpture. No PS on this one! Not as dangerous as steel wool.. :wink:

#1 has no EL wire ... Just plain torch. :mrgreen:
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Re: Electrifying Sculptures

Postby DebT on Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:17 pm

Great stuff Surenj !
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Re: Electrifying Sculptures

Postby stubbsy on Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:48 pm

surenj wrote:Big V, this is done with a EL wire (for electricity)

And here is some info on the stuff to save the curious some keystrokes
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Re: Electrifying Sculptures

Postby colin_12 on Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:00 pm

These are cool Surenj
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Re: Electrifying Sculptures

Postby Matt. K on Fri Nov 05, 2010 8:45 pm

So where do you get this stuff? (EL wire). It looks like fun!
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Re: Electrifying Sculptures

Postby surenj on Fri Nov 05, 2010 11:12 pm

Matt,

http://shop.ebay.com.au/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=EL+wire&_sacat=See-All-Categories
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