You all are doing great; some wonderful uploads here ... ronnie, have you gotten your LEDs yet??? I think I'll pick up a few this week -- hopefully diff colors :) :)

Not yet Shazza, maybe something I'll look at at fag break LOL, there is a shop just around the corner that sells wee flashlights and stuff :)

Maria! This is a knock-out! My cup of tea and so very much more than I have been able to do as hard as I try! Stellar!!!

Wow, Flannel, Mick, Garlor and now Maria, you people are sooo creative. So many ways one can apply lighting to create that sublime "post work" effect straight from your camera. I love the fact that one can control lighting to achieve this.

I've been playing with bananas, silver tea pots and the like all evening but every time I see a new upload come in, I hesitate.

Come on Ronnie, what have you been up to with your wee lights?

Don't hesitate Piet :)
Tex you hit the bigtime with this one, gorgeous image.

Thanks, PJ, Piet, and Ronnie.  Just a first attempt, but a fascinating challenge here that has me experimenting on something other than birds, and lots of practice needed.

Sorry Piet, just noticed that I am afraid I have not obtained any wee lights yet :(...a real bummer because I am fair itching to give it a go, I borrowed a small flashlight a while back to give it a whirl, with some pointers Adam had sent me, but lost those test shots in a crash, I must get some form of small flashlight :)

Its so wonderful seeing all this inspiration going around.  Maria, yours is fantastic!

I was not able to find the link to this thread, but I knew, that Tara had link so I got it from her wonderful gallery. Thank you Tara :) 
Dont get me wrong. I am just so dumb finding links, so if they are not shining in my face, I dont find them
Well here is a shot i took saturday , when the evening sun was shining on my blinds. At once I thought of this thread.

Welcome to the challenge Helle! Excellent execution in quality and shapes of lighting. I hope you don't stop partaking from now on. 

Thanks to people like Ronnie and Tara the forum seems to be well advertised in the galleries. I am sure there are more people who added the link. Thanks guys!

I played with a LED flash light as source last night and was amazed at the possibilities of replicating an umbrella reflector, lighting from different angles. Watch this space, I will upload soon.

Thank you Piet. Il try to keep up with the thread. There ar many wonderful examples of light in here.

Yay!  Hey Helle!  :)  It's nice to see your wonderful light shot.  I'm glad you followed my link and found this!  That shadow on your blinds is beautiful. 

Excellent Helle!  So great to see you here !!  Excellent light shot  there!  :)

Piet, can't wait to see what you've been doing over there!   common and show us! :) :) 

Hey Tara !! :-)))  
Thank you very much. I have seen your last jar with the beach inside. Wonderful light in that.
Now il try and come up with a new Light Shot :)

Hello Shari.
Thank you for the welcome. I see there are alot of gorgeous stuff to live up to. Amazing and very exiting to see how much the light works with our cameras, when we let it.. :-)))

Yes I echo those welcome messages Helle, and a beautiful image as a first pitch out.

Excellent Piet, I got a little flashlight today, have not tried it yet, it's not a led it has the regular bulb in it, but I might difuse it a bit with tissue.

Great stuff Ronnie, I would like to see what the color temperature is of the ordinary bulb. I think the LED has cast too much blue, I did not want to tweak in PS, it is straight out the camera, just cropped.

Good luck, send me some of your results.

Will do Piet :)

Edit further note
I will send the results to Shari too, she has also found this technique adictive too :)

Piet, Like your result with the LED and a 30 second exposure. What do you mean "brushed side to side"? Moved from side to side manually throughout the exposure time?

Bill

P.S. Had to pull your Cuties...too much logo. But that gives me one more upload I think:)

I placed this dragon incense burner on the windowsill and shot into the sun. :)

Great job Barb. like your results.

Yes Bill,I moved the LED side to side but also the light beams, swept from side to side covering the areas the way I wanted to.

Now Bill show us what you mean!

Thanks for the picture Ronnie, it was passed on to me last night. It does cast a warmer glow on the subject and I love the results. It opens up so many new avenues in control over (constructive) lighting. What I love about the techniques is how one can completely hide any distraction from the background. It's a pity we cannot share it in here BUT I will work on a plan without getting me kicked outa here for bending rules... :rolleyes:

Excellent one Barb, I love the rays crowning the subject matter.

Do you realize that we've been going strong in this forum for 18 days now and we still hit on very educational and creative techniques?

That's because we rock!

:)

I am thoroughly impressed with the folks here.  What a bunch of open, curious, creative people!

You are spot on Tara, we rock! LOL

I invited another member to our challenge, but of course I told him to take it easy because he has softboxes and stuff to do great lighting. See his last upload.

**bakapo - awesome addition to the forum !!!!   :)

Piet and Ronnie -- I am going to try this technique tonight .. hopefully :) If work leaves some Umph in me at that time.   I love how your Moms doll turned out Ronnie ... absolutely love it. 
I will have to find a good light source though ...**

@Piet and Shazz
Well it's in my gallery now, I posted it today :)
Sure thing Piet you are very welcome, I did help the warmth along a little by setting my WB to daylight, the first shots I took were balanced for tungsten light and were a little too cold, the next lot were done with a manual WB and seemed like a bright white floodlight, so I settled for the warmer option, and I also got rid of the horrid pattern that comes from standard flashlights, by putting a cig rolling paper over the head of the flashlight to soften the beam.

Without getting yourself into bother Piet, it just occured to me to provide the link, so that's a way around it :)

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1834771&member

Ahhemmnnn........... This here is my first, and I hope I ´ m not too late. Wonderful pics here, one better as the last. Great, great, great!!!!!  Which is the finest? I don ´t know, but who cares?  Seems as if some people here have a lot of fun!

Pic was taken today for this contest - and to warm the feet and hands, too. We have heavy snowfall till 2 days (they call it "Global warming" LOL) and I have waited for some winter pics from Berlin till 3 years. So today was my day . It ended inside of the Kaiser-Wilhelm - Memory church, a warm and cosy place, and an organ player played his pieces for the sunday morning celebration.  What can a poor boy with cold fingers asking for?

Great shot Bill cody, I like the lighting here.

Thanks for the flowers,  PD! There are so many fine pics here, a wonderful content, I like it the best of all till today.  All of you have  done a very fine job all together.

I'm enjoying this SO much!  :)  Everyone is posting such wonderful images, and actually THINKING about light instead of just finding images that will work for the challenge.  Awesome!  I think I've learned more from this challenge than any other.  Great idea, Shari, and fabulous work, everybody!

I know, I know, I've still got one to post for my three (as Piet reminds me from time to time).  I'll get there!  I'm still thinking, and there are nine days left.

I absolutely agree with you Tara on the fact that this challenge has been a learning curve, it has given each member new tools and ideas, Shari has done a terrific job!...Nine days, what do you think?...is it me or has this month flown by?

It's a short month, Sweetie.  Only 28 days.  I think that's the same over there as over here?  LOL!  It DOES make the month fly by, to have such a fun challenge.

:)

Oh yeah Feb is the dreaded 28 dayer except a leap year :)...scuse I , it's been a long day :)...well that's my defense :)

I have not even had time to take any for this challenge!  Looking forward to whatever Shari has planned for next month.

I concur Dave, she does (along with admin) come up with some great ideas, and these challenges get the creative juices flowing.

Ahh Bill, I am glad you came out of your corner, still in time to have fun AND display your work of lighting.  Things are slow for us buggers because most of us used out 3 uploads already. Bring them on.

Ronnie I am glad you pasted that link to your upload, I still think that's one of the best from our challenge.

Tara, have you uploaded all 3 yours? Are we waiting for you lady?:glare:

I can't wait either David, I heard a rumor Shari is busy on the new challenge... my lips are sealed.

Yes, yes, you're still waiting on me.  Between the tips I've gotten from you and from RJ, I MIGHT be able to get one of those fancy paint-with-light shots.  We'll see.  Nine days, my friend!  :)  If I post my third shot, what will you have to look forward to? 

I was at a local home improvement warehouse yesterday afternoon and got some great shots.  One of the ones I WISH were great (but is blurry and NOT my best work!) is a shot of a man standing in the lighting department, looking at all the fixtures (which are all blazing light, of course), and he's wearing sunglasses. 

The shot was sort of surreptitious, and I only got two - one blurry and one even blurrier - but lordy, was that a wonderful sight!  :)

This was a school event a couple of months ago - I of course spent most of the time behind my lens, haha - it's a great excuse for being politely antisocial!!

Now that's what I call "scaling a braai!" or to use Tara's expression: "surreptitous" photography! That smoke haze cause an excellent diffuser for the back light. I love it, it is so South African and I bet a bit spiteful while our northern hemisphere friends have to cope with lots of snow.

LOL@Tara, I would love to see the guy gazing skyward in the shades :)

Thanks Piet, at least with a link, you wont get a rocketing from admin:)

Kathy this is just gorgeous, like Piet, I particularly like the smokey atmo.

Thanks guys :-)  I'm glad I posted it, I have to say. It's been sitting on my computer, lost in a file somewhere, and I was browsing this morning when I found it and immediately thought of the challenge!

Can't WAIT for next month's challenge now!  I bought special batteries for my camera TODAY!  Just couldn't stand the thought of being "cameraless" - it's like losing a limb!!

I hear ya Kathy, I used to use countless alkalines until I found the ubiquitous NiMH rechargables, now of course my Canon has a re-chargable battery pack, but I still use the re-chargables for my trackball and any other things with AA size bats :)

Mary this is beautiful :)

f16
10 second exposure
ISO 200
WB Daylight
small flashlight with no snoot (stood behind camera/tripod)

Tried various angles, longer times and different WB settings for follow-on shots.

Next step is to get more elaborate with my set-up...that may be the harder part for me.

Fascinating mood in the place Mary, well done!

Bill you ole... Now was this fun or what! I am so glad you posted your setting and time intervals.