A workshop led by Loren Fisher focused on night sky photography and light painting. It was some great learning and some cool images!
I just returned from a great workshop held by Loren Fisher (go check out his work)! The subject of the workshops was the night sky and light painting. We had a lot of fun and learning about Milky Way photography, capturing the sky and lighting up subjects to create an interesting image.
Here’s one from the workshop…
This patchwork truck stands out in the field and is a great subject to capture at night with the help of some intelligent lighting (by Loren) and a long exposure.
The Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik features a stunning façade with more than 700 embedded LED strip lights, which create a visual art installation at night.
We’re back at Reykjavik’s Harpa Concert Hall and Convention Centre. There is much more to Harpa’s intriguing facade than the collection of windows of different types of glass. Artist Olafur Eliasson led the facade design and created a massive art installation! In last week’s post we covered the dichroic glass and the interesting colors that this provides. This week we go into the dark side of Harpa!
Here’s an image from the video below…
There are more than 700 LED strip lights embedded in the building’s façade, each approximately 1.5 meters (4.6 feet) long. Each fixture is incorporated into a slim aluminum extrusion, specifically designed to match the geometry of its specific quasi-brick glass and mounted to the rear vertical profile of the steelwork. This placement avoids overwhelming people inside the foyer with too much light, while offering the best diffuse and indirect light distribution. The fixtures’ optics are composed of a series of filters, diffusers, and lenses and were developed for the project in collaboration with lighting manufacturer Zumtobel.
This video shows a short segment of the windows changing colors. As it was rather windy, I have removed the audio.
Much appreciation to Architect Magazine for their September 17, 2012 article titled Harpa-Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre.
This is my mid-week contribution to the Monday Window thread, a creation of Ludwig Keck. To read more about Ludwig, check this page.
Light glows across the ages
Welcome to week 189 of the Tuesday Photo Challenge!
Thank you all for the incredible amount of Peace that flowed throughout last week’s posts! This week, I’ve selected another theme that has been inspired by one of the images I captured in Liverpool just over a month ago. While doing some additional editing, I played around with one of the night-time shots to get it to speak a bit more. This led to an image with a rather warm Glow, which is pushed very much by the wonderful street lighting they have around the Albert Docks.
I think that the interesting part of this challenge will be your choice of direction with the theme of Glow…will you opt for the glow of an ember, a firefly, or the glowing praise that is heaped on a great performance? There are many choices, so feel free to push the boundaries and shoot for that glowing review!
This is definitely one theme that has me curious to see what you might create!! Have fun and go wild!
Here’s the image that inspired the theme…
The Albert Docks are a lovely area to explore during the evening hours with great restaurants and entertainment. A couple of notes about the creation of this image, as it’s a bit non-standard for me; the shot was captured on an iPhone 11 Pro Max using the NeuralCam app. This app is great for night photography, such as this. I then processed the image using Aurora HDR and used a toned down Misty Landscape preset (at 59%), which also added a bit of grain to the clouds. I cleaned that image up in PhotoShop with a bit of sharpening, a little soft light overlay and popped the contrast somewhat. I cropped it to adjust the aspect ratio to get this result.
The full rules of this challenge are in TPC Guidelines, but here’s the tl;dr:
May your creative energy glow and light the path to a wonderful image!
Enjoy the beauty of the night!
Welcome to the 160th round up of the Tuesday Photo Challenge!
The night spoke to many of you, as is evident from your wonderful creations this week. I think you’ll agree with me that the set of entries in response to the Night theme are simply amazing. Your variety of approaches and skill, with which you executed them were a pleasure to behold!
Thank you for allowing me to read another great set of posts and the effort that you put into them! Please comment on each other’s work!
Here’s something fun to do at night…
During the Winter season, the town of Brno in the Czech Republic has this wonderful outdoor skating rink in front of one the museums. One can glide around and in front of the art!
Please let all of these great bloggers know your thoughts about their posts!
Bring on your best night light!
Welcome to week 160 of the Tuesday Photo Challenge!
My apologies for not getting last week’s round up out first, but it’s been challenging to cram a week’s worth of work into 2 days before my trip to Ireland. I’ve looked a bunch of your wonderful, wheel posts and they are stunning! For this week’s challenge, I’m going for a darker subject: Night! Personally, I enjoy the look of shooting at night, as the contrast between light and dark is so pronounced. In your approach to this week’s theme, feel free to bring any old night into the light!
I hope you have fun with this theme!!
Here’s a shot from last week…
Last week was spent in Boston, as Red Hat held its annual Summit there, which was a truly inspiring event! As I was walking back to my hotel after one of the ancillary events, I came across this bridge and saw that the moon was looking lovely between the high-rise buildings…
The full rules of this challenge are in TPC Guidelines, but here’s the tl;dr:
I’m looking forward to what creatures the night might bring to the light!
Seeing the scene
Many thanks to Sonya for Week One Hundred and Sixty-Nine of Three Line Tales, part of her awesome blog Only 100 Words!
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Wet streets, glistening,
Colors reflect, sauntering…
Night visions abound!
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Thank you to Sonya of Only 100 Words for coming up with Three Line Tales.
You’ll find full guidelines on her TLT page, but here’s the tl;dr:
Happy three-lining!
Night’s sweet embrace
Many thanks to Sonya for Week One Hundred and Fifty-Six of Three Line Tales, part of her awesome blog Only 100 Words!
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Midnight blue beckons,
Liquid indigo reflects.
Starry night’s embrace.
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Thank you to Sonya of Only 100 Words for coming up with Three Line Tales.
You’ll find full guidelines on her TLT page, but here’s the tl;dr:
Happy three-lining!
Artist’s inspiration
Many thanks to Sonya for Week One Hundred and Four of Three Line Tales, part of her awesome blog Only 100 Words!
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Looking up, deep blue
Firmament, expansive sky.
Starry, starry night.
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Thank you to Sonya of Only 100 Words for coming up with Three Line Tales.
You’ll find full guidelines on her TLT page, but here’s the tl;dr:
Happy three-lining!
A shot in the dark!
Welcome to Week 74 of the Tuesday Photo Challenge.
The water was fine last week, as many of you jumped in with both feet to create some stunning posts! As many of my themes tend to connect from one week to another, this week will be no different… As last week’s post featured Nubble Light in Cape Neddick, Maine, I thought it would be nice to use the same lighthouse again in a very different shot to introduce the theme of Dark!
As always, feel free to take this theme into the direction that you like, which means that you don’t have to do an evening shot, but could also photograph something with dark colors, or a dark cloud, or, you’ve got the idea! I count on your creativity to make this another interesting week!
Here’s that shot of Nubble Light…
This is a rather straightforward shot with a manually calculated exposure of 131 seconds at f/18 and 100 ISO using a timer. The trick is to take a test shot at high ISO and wide open aperture to get a sense for the amount of light that is needed and then dial in for a nice long exposure to get the smoothness of the sea.
The full rules of this challenge are in TPC Guidelines, but here’s the tl;dr:
Let’s play safe with water during this week and try to surprise me!
