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Quark RGB – First Light Paintings Attempts

Jason — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:27:32 +0000

After doing a bit of research on the internet, I decided to purchase a torch/flashlight, in attempt to be a bit creative with the whole ‘light painting’ concept. I ended up finding a flashlight made by 4sevens, called the Quark RGB.

Now I’ve only just got it today and have only played around with it for 10 minutes or so (and taken less than 10 photos). So here are the results. I can see huge room for improvement, but trying to find ‘dark areas’ was a little difficult. For the most part I was just experimenting to see if the reason I bought the Quark RGB would work out.

Light Painting - TV

Light Painting - Car Side

I’ve also got to figure out how I can tell my Camera to keeping taking a photo, until I tell it to stop. (Similar to BULB mode, however I don’t want to be holding the button. I just want to press the button to start, and press to finish).

I’ll need to get out my tripod and try some outdoor shots as well.

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Mt.Cootha from inside my car

Jason — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:35:38 +0000

Haven’t taken any new photos recently, so I thought I would share a few more. The below ones were taken from inside my car at Mt.Cootha, Brisbane. As it was raining I ended up staying in the car, as there wasn’t a real opportunity to get anything.

The biggest challenge here was to keep the camera still for 15 seconds or longer, resting against the car door. This was the main reason why I ended up with some many photos. Below are two photos taken from the night.

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Gold Coast Photos

Jason — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:59:38 +0000

I mentioned in my first post that I had intended to share some photos. I’ll start with 3 photos which I had taken earlier on the year. Both photos are taken on the Gold Coast, QLD using my Canon 50D. I haven’t played with it too much, and in both occasions (beach & building) was my first attempts at using a tripod to take some long exposures.

My favourite is the third photo (portrait of the beach, where you can see a dogs foot prints in the sand). Just click on the photos if you want to see a larger view of them.

Update:

I forgot to mention that the photo of the building was meant to capture “Earth Hour”, a before and after which I thought the community would get behind. The reason why there isn’t a after photo (during) is that nothing changed. More about Earth Hour – here

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