Done a grand job here Bill, it's an addictive technique isn't it, and I agree with Piet good that you showed the details of your experiments.

mick

Nice one Mick, like it :)

Nothing to laugh at here Dave, very creative capture!

Nevertheless, if you want to stand and applaud that will be accepted. : )

Mary, love the photo!

Standing and applauding with gusto Tom, and to me it is VERY creative.

Been painting again Tex? :)...nifty image!

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Holy smokes folks !!!  You guys are really rockin' this place!  What GREAT shots i'm seeing here!  I'd better get my fannie in gear myself and upload another one.  I think I only uploaded ONE SO FAR.....  lol 

Painting with light is a new thing for me; I'm sooo enjoying myself with this; even though I haven't spent much time at it myself; the weekend is here and I'm raring to go with it!  I love the warmth of your photo's here you guys..... mine dont turn out 'warm' like yours.  What's the secret?

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Shari...when it comes to painting with light, I think the answer for warmer colors is in trying different White Balance settings. I haven't tried them all but a daylight setting gave me the warmest colors.

Bill

That's right Bill, I have tried them all on my cam, and I found that the only two were daylight and cloudy, of course the old trick for a warm sunset rings true here, set for a cloudy day, a contradiction in terms, but it works :)

Shari I won't tell you what fannie means in England, but I know it's not what you are thinking of.

Hehehe Dave :)

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****I'll play around with various settings and I guess i could cheat and tweak in photoshop, too .. but in my mind, that is not 'true' painting with light .. or is it ?

David ......... I can only imagine!  LOL
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Nah! it's not really cheating Shari, it's creative license Spielberg does it daily :)

Over here fanny = bum

I had to look it up to find out what it means over there.  It was tough to get a definition that made any sense to me!  One actually said it was a woman's "front bits."  !!!  A couple of lists of British slang didn't include the word at all.  After much research, I finally got it.   Sheesh! 

Oscar Wilde was right!

LOL auntie that'll teach ya to go playing sluth :)..and as I understand it, a bum over there is a tramp here, and a tramp over there is a hooker, here a loose term for an angler is a hooker...Confused?...you will be in the next episode of "SOAP!"

A bum here is someone who asks for money on the street, usually for alcohol.  They are almost always unemployed and homeless.  Anyone here using the word "bum" the way a Brit would use it will probably attempt some sort of a fake British accent!  We're a strange lot.  Do you use American accents just for fun?

A tramp here is either an old-fashioned word for a bum (it was used during the Depression in the 30s when men used to jump on freight trains to get from place to place), but a tramp can also be a woman of loose morals.  Not necessarily a hooker, just a gal who sleeps around.  Of course men who engage in similar behavior are "studs," which should give you an idea of the equality of the sexes in this GREAT nation of ours!  LOL!

Hookers here are prostitutes.  There's no other meaning of the word that I'm aware of.

I loved SOAP!  Cracked me up.  I'm not much of a TV watcher and never have been, but I made a point to stay up and watch that show while it was on. 

Yeah I loved it too Benson was a gas, and the spin off series "Benson" was one of my faves, there are a number of people here that use a lot of American phrases, I myself use the odd one now again, such as "Mind your own beeswax"...our television here must possibly be at the very least 80% American stuff, the teens here are all chatting yank as they say.

I haven't heard "mind your own beeswax" for about 40 years!  :)   Do you say it with some sort of American accent?

LOL no I an not that sad LOL, it's a saying I first heard on an American show,can't even think which one now, and I thought it was amusing, so it became a staple for me now :)
And on reflection I also say "see ya see ya wouldn't wanna be ya"....and also I have a cousin that does not say goodbye, he says "So long" :)

When we do British-isms here we tend to do them with an accent.  Personally, I blame Monty Python.  It's hard to say things like "I'm not dead yet" and "Don't you want to haggle" and "He's pining for the fjiords" without putting on an accent.  Talk about sad!  None of us are very good at it, I don't think!  LOL!

LOL I hear ya sweetie, Monty Python have a lot to answer for :)

Oh this thread was great for starting the day!  I laughed myself silly.  ^_^

Yeah that was the general idea Charlene, you don't gotta post a pic to get amused at rendo LOL!

I see y'all were havin' fun with the 'fannie' thing .. lol  So many diff meanings to so many things.  It could make for a thread all its own!  LOL  

I bought some lights today .. dont know how they'll work out .. but we'll see.  :)

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/index.php?browse&section_id=31

I used "spot metering" so the camera would not average the etire scene but would take a selected part at representing middle gray then work out the rest from there.   About all the post work was a touch of saturation and resizing to post.  I saw the beams of light through the clouds and that made it a must shoot for me.

In 2007 I put up a tutorial on "spot metering" here at Renderosity and you are certainly welcome to download it (.pdf file).  The link will get you there if you want to take a look. Scroll down the page a little to find the tut. 

You folks have some very creative, fun and fine "light" shots here.  TomDart.

A very beautiful image Tom, you did a fine job here.

That shot is fine as is, it's a beauty

Thanks for linking to your tutorial, Tom.   I'm just learning about non-manual settings in my camera, and what you said made sense.  I don't know yet what capabilities my camera has for "spot metering" but at least I now understand what it is and why I might want to know more!  :)  Even as a beginner, I found it easy to follow.  Thanks again!

Gorgeous shot, btw.

Beautiful glint in the cats eye :)

Wow - wonderful shots!  Love the glints of light with the swan, and the cat ... !!!  Beautiful stuff.

Hi guys, bear with me I am on dial-up! Fun huh, when things tend to break down in Africa. I can't complain though, we are having lovely rains, thunderstorms and the temps are in the mid 20C or almost 70F for our far away friends.

I am so glad you joined David, and NO we won't laugh because it fits the challenge very well, as were Tom's and Maria's contributions. Thanks for the tut Tom, i am sure we can all go back and learn more about meter readings - and don't forget, some cameras have their own peculiarities or "character" if I can call it that.

A hearty welcome to Lashia and Wendy! Wendy, you've been a bad girl! We see way too little of you in this forum. Just look at those sparkles, almost looking post worked but I know they aren't because you used that as a forum banner where I had the privilege of sharing the original.

Welcome back Mick, I love the low lighting and warmth!

I have just discovered I do not have a fannie... what a shock! :woot: Do I speak English or what!

Thanks for that perspective, Piet!  You've just now made me realize I have two fannies, depending on where I am in the world!  That's depressing.

LOL!

Gosh you're lucky Tara!

:b_funny:

Oh just as a matter of interest. Us in South Africa are torn between the two influences. Our educational system is British English while our lifestyle tend to be American -  things like music and movies influence us a great deal.

Then to add on top of that, we have our own South African Afrikaans/English slang as unique as that of the Aussies. So here a "fannie" could be your aunt for what it's worth.

Back to pictures for me. :sneaky:

lol...love the english lesson...lol....keep going...

The recent entries wonderful, all in different subject  but fit so well to this tread. I am still sitting on my last one but now I realy have an ich to post it. PWL of course what else.

seeyus  Tunde

Tunde, hehe for the English lesson! Keep going, I would love to see what you have up your sleeve still.

I invited Charlene back here, to participate this time. I am holding my breath.

I'm so confused.  Does my aunt have THREE fannies???

Sheesh.  This gets weirder by the minute.

Okay you guys, I've done everything Ronnie and Piet suggested (including using a funnel ... thanks, RJ!) and everything everyone else said that I could remember, and this is what I've come up with.  Please don't judge me too harshly on setup!  I wanted to throw together severall different sorts of textures to see what happened.  This is what happened! 

All I did in postwork was an unsharp mask, a compositional crop, and I cloned out a bunch of white lint on my black fabric background.  (Truth in advertising, here!)

Clearly, I still have a LOT to learn!!!

Thanks, everybody!

This is my third shot.

This is great Tara!

A quick way to take stock of what you leaned and achieved: Try and replicate this results with a flash or natural lighting through a window, or both, if you don't succeed in replicating this or improve the results, then you did achieve what we set out to do and you learned. During your next try add just a tad of lighting below the objects so as not to make them appear as if they hang in the air - unless that is what you aimed to achieve.

I can't believe we head for the end of the month and we still go strong...

Ummm ... I don't get what you're talking about with the window.  ???

All I aimed to achieve with this was to see if my camera would handle the task, and if I could wrap my brain around it enough to get something like what it's supposed to be like!  LOL!  The items sort of ARE floating in air - the basket is tilted and propped up with a little box that's under the black fabric it's sitting on, and the little elephant thing is sitting right on top of the box that's under the fabric.  Next time I'll try a different background color.  I can totally see how black makes everything appear to float.  I never thought of that!

Thanks!  :)

Well I can see what Piet is saying in terms of the floating in air look, but Auntie, didn't you do a fantastic job for a first crack of the whip, excellent first time results :)

This is fantastic work on these glass pieces, I shot some lead crystals here in the challenge and in my gallery, but that was before my new found love of painting with light, you have got me considering a re-shoot :)

Nice work with the glass, redchilicat!  I like the dolphin for its elegance, and the bull for its excitement.  (All those planes reflecting differently!  Wow!)

Thanks for your kind words, RJ!  :) 

 Here I am, back again.  Piet asked me to participate in this challenge.  So, I put my "thinking cap" on. Not sure how far I'll get with an oxygen-starved brain. ;o)    I'm recovering from a cold.