Night time antics

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Lately I've been going out at night and having a bit of experimental fun with off-camera flashes. Especially the use of coloured glass filters to provide big chunks of vibrant colour (mostly green and blue) and illuminate people and objects in awesome ways.

Sunday night was a bit of a trial run, going into a field and getting used to the idea of 'painting with a flash' It gives crazy ghostlike effects, and multiple layering, what i found quite cool was the tone in the sky, the slow shutter speed allowed even for the cloud movement, and it has this lightness to it almost as if it were daytime instead of night.

This was about a 3 minute exposure on f11:


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And another image from sunday, this time the trees in Tim and Ian's garden. I sat between the two trees and lit up each side of the tress, then up the outsides of the trees, and a small piece of grass on the right hand side. The street lit behind also casts strands of light along the grass right to the foreground Quite mystical I thought:


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Last night's shoot was at Logan park, a beautifully warm night with a big moon (got a bit of moonflare in a few images) and a slight breeze.
I took a Bronica 6x6 and the D80, as well as a range of single firing flashes and one on burst mode (this was used to light up the flowers when thrown in the air.) as well a hang-picked selection of excellent models and button pushers.

I ran around with a flash and some glass filters, lighting up different scenes, then moving people into new spots and flashing them again. The result is the composed montage of situation really. With a cinematic quality, it became a film, and I was the director.
It was interesting, and the more I continued, the more I felt as though what I was doing was created layers in reality, instead of in photoshop. It was a manipulation of time and space within the camera.


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