Geometric Light

cmkultradome

My New Year's resolution was to take a photo a day. Of course its day 6 and I already missed on day 5. It's tough when it's dark outside when you get up and dark when you get home from work. I have turned to photographing mundane items in the house. This afternoon I found this toy while cleaning (photo #1). It has a bouncy ball inside of it and when you bounce it it lights up all different colors for about 15 seconds. I bounced the ball, then turned off all of the lights and photographed it with 10 & 15 second exposures. I thought it came out pretty cool.

Stephanie

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clemensphoto's

Very cool! You know just because you missed day five doesn't mean you could take a few more on another day to make it up

Skippy

cmkultradome wrote:

My New Year's resolution was to take a photo a day. Of course its day 6 and I already missed on day 5. It's tough when it's dark outside when you get up and dark when you get home from work. I have turned to photographing mundane items in the house. This afternoon I found this toy while cleaning (photo #1). It has a bouncy ball inside of it and when you bounce it it lights up all different colors for about 15 seconds. I bounced the ball, then turned off all of the lights and photographed it with 10 & 15 second exposures. I thought it came out pretty cool.

Stephanie

Hi Stephanie, Happy New Year

The toy doesn't really look that colourful when it's not lit up does it.
But gosh when you darken the room and bounce it,
the colours are quite amazing.

I love it when you folks get creative, then post your creations to share with the rest of us :ivar

These look Great! ..... Skippy
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jeffmeyers

#2 is quite good. Care to share with us the lighting set up on this?

cmkultradome

jeffmeyers wrote:

#2 is quite good. Care to share with us the lighting set up on this?

Jeff-
No real lighting setup. I set up the toy on a painted white dresser with the overhead light on in the room and set the focus and then pushed the shutter button all the way down (I had the camer set on timer mode). Then I bounced the ball to get it flashing, put it back in the same spot, and then turned off all the lights. The shutter opened, the ball continued to flash for about 10-15 seconds, the shutter stayed open for a few more seconds of darkness in the room. Camera settings were shutter speed 15 sec, f/16, ISO 100.

Stephanie

jeffmeyers

cmkultradome wrote:

Jeff-
No real lighting setup. I set up the toy on a painted white dresser with the overhead light on in the room and set the focus and then pushed the shutter button all the way down (I had the camer set on timer mode). Then I bounced the ball to get it flashing, put it back in the same spot, and then turned off all the lights. The shutter opened, the ball continued to flash for about 10-15 seconds, the shutter stayed open for a few more seconds of darkness in the room. Camera settings were shutter speed 15 sec, f/16, ISO 100.

Stephanie

Oh, I get it. I didn't know the ball had an internal light source. That makes sense. Cool.

happysmileylady

very freaking cool!

divamum

AWESOME shots!!

I tried to shoot some glow sticks on a similar principle and it was an unmitigated failure, so colour me impressed - these are great!