Nov 9th --313/365---Night Train - a photo on Flickriver

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finding new locations to light paint is always a bonus --but finding new locations to light paint that have TO MUCH ambient light spilling in from the street lights and city presents some challenges when trying to light paint in those areas 
-----first one is that even if its only the littlest amount of street light (i will refer to it as ambient light) the problem is that over the time of say 3 minutes it slowly keeps recording as your taking the photo and that ambient light will be super bright in the photo cause over of the amount of time it just keeps adding up on the image and getting brighter and brighter --which in return is what washes out all your colors that your light painting ------so how do you fix that - we;ll first off you gota start off with a  higher number f-stop to be able to have that longer 4 minute exposure --say f-11  and iso 200 (to keep it simple) ---and at those settings high f-stop and low ISO--the problem is that its so much harder for your lights that im using to light paint with to show up -for them to be seen in the photo --cause at f-11 and iso 200 the camera is letting in only little amounts of light ---that means that i have to lightpaint way longer with the lights to make my flashlights show up ---which time is what i dont have l cause im on that time limit for the background --remember the iso 200 f-11 setting-- while thats kinda like my "time limit" for that scene --2 to 3 minutes -is all i got -before it washes out all my color to much from that ambient light -----" so the flashlights and lights i use have to be super bright --cause again the gels i use and colors over the flashlight  are cutting the light down from that as well--it dims the brightness  ----see what i mean that :ambient light sucks for light painting(at least it does when you would like at least a 5 minute exposure but cant ---it would be great if all the night lights from the city were shut off for 1 night --then we could have free roam to LP where ever we wanted ---

k so anyway that was a mass ramble and might make no sense but thats how it plays out in the ambient light  

specs-----my trusty massive flashlight was used to light up the train as i walked down the side of it doing some light splashes along the way then i blasted the light all the way to the end of the trai-its hard to see the scale of it but its a long train -----after that i did the front of the foreground with a purple gelled light and also walked around the back side of the train and did a little backlight along the edge of the far wheel -and for the last part i did the did the headlights on the front of the train ---to look like they were on -i just held the big flashlight facing the camera over where the original lights are on the train and held the light on for a couple seconds --this was day 313 in 2010

Taken on: November 9, 2010

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Sets appears in: • Open Shutter Light Painting Stories • 365 --year 2010 *****Complete

Groups appears in: • LIGHT PAINTING • planes, trains and automobiles more » • The World Through My Eyes ... • Light Painting - The Real Deal • Light Junkies • ...-Wink's Place-... • Rail passion « less

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