We headed out Sunday night to get some true night shots. If you've never tried that I suggest you do. But we ran into a problem - There was a haze in the sky from a very nasty fire about 60 miles or so away. We just happened to be right in the path of the smoke and the smell. Our eyes were burning from it. Since I could tell we weren't going to get the kind of night shots, even with the full moon, that I had hoped for I decided to get out a couple of glow lights I'd been carrying around for about a year and just have some Phun!
This shot was taken at about 10 p.m. and if you look closely those small white dots in the sky are stars. If it had not been for the smoke you'd have seen many more. I simply opened my shutter for 1 full minute while I walked toward the camera with a red glow stick in one hand and a blue one in the other swinging my arms around like two windmills going opposite directions. Frankly I'm sure I looked utterly ridiculous out there. But what the heck?
If you're new to photography you may wonder why you only see the lights and you do not see me. It's because I kept moving so there was never enough light on me in one spot for the camera to record it. If you have a hard time with that, take your camera outside at night some time and find something to take a photo of that requires an exposure of at least 5 seconds. While the photo is being taken quickly walk across in front of the camera. Then look at the photo and you will not be visible in it.
I believe photography should be Phun and that's why I have my Phun Phriday! posts. Have you done something Phun, weird and/or creative lately? If so, leave a link to it in your comment. If not - well I'd really love to hear from you anyway.
Don't be shy - leave a comment or email me. I look forward to hearing from you!
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24 comments:
I love, love LOVE this one!!!! dynamite and groovy (remember that word) before I read the post, i was planning in my head to ask for a tutorial on how you did this. i thought PHOTSHOP. Amazing when i read it and you are The Invisible Man. i even enlarged to 400 percent and could not see you. learn something new every day.
Wow, I actually learned something and my head didn't explode! That's a cool shot, Scott!
Scott this is Fantastic. I love Love this.
Im with Rocket Man . Very cool
Your so right . Photography should be fun. What a fun shot.
Have a fantastic day
Agreed, this is way cool, but somehow I just can't get that image of you frantically waving your arms around with glow sticks. Where was Chad when he should be taking a video of this performance??? Click HERE for my Phun Phriday smile for the day.
It looks to me that all the arm whirling you did should have cleared that valley of its smoke.The picture turned out much better than I thought it would.Great fun Friday shot,at least it was for me watching you.
I just found your blog a couple weeks ago and I just love your take on photography. Amazing shot.. and only because you decided to do something out of the box! Thanks for the inspiration!
Very Kool! So, you know how to be invisible...hmmm! I've got to try this when I run across glow sticks again.
that is a cool shot.. didn't know if one moved then they wouldn't be in the photo.. very interesting..
hope you have a great day.
nicely done Scott, i love the effect that you've created.
Ok, I'm going to sound like a 12 year old, but totally cool! You've just inspired me to fix my tripod and do night shots.
Sorry about the gruesome photo today. I was trying to figure out how to warn people without scaring them away, and all I could come up with was "Warning"!
Nicely done !
i like it! and i didn't know you could disappear like that in a picture...
This is awesome! I love playing with long exposures but haven't done it in a long time. I might try something tonight, with all of the snow falling I might get some neat stuff!
Good work Scott, I like it.
WOW! Spetacular!
Kisses.
I've been viewing your blog recently and enjoy your approach to photography. Now you throw glo-stix into the menu. I just happen to have a couple lying around and plan to try it. Thanks for the inspiration.
Very nice! It's quite original..:)
Hey you goof! This is phun for sure. Love the shot. But what abot the fire did it die or what?
We were suppose to work on a photo like this in our class....but I skiped it because I think it's toooo hard. No on the other hand it looks fun so I might give it a go anyway just to experience with my camera.
Bye bye dancing man...would have love seeing your hop around in the middle of the street dancing like a dutch windmill ;-))) what a blast. But hey, it's always nice to fool around like a little kid isn't?
Hugs Dagmar
:) excellent realization!! congratulations for idea!!
nice effect and a good idea
I didn't get a phun phriday shot but I am having a super saturday catching up on blogs I wasn't able to view over the past few weeks. Have enjoyed all your work going back - had missed seeing your phun shots and sunset shots, macros and all the others. A very agreeable way to spend some time - nice work Scott !
I hope to learn this with your help over the winter. Im always open to try new things even if it means making many mistakes along the way.
Im back from my time away.
Have a nice Sunday
That was my 1st question why weren't you in the photo thank you for answering that as well. I have played with the moon some moving the camera. Thanks for always sharing these fun new things to try..
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