Lightrails - most fun you can have with the lights off

Oxygen · 3 Mar 2008 at 23:22

I finaly got sick of not having a working tripod after it was snapped in Ecuador
last year so I gaffer taped it together tonight, switched out the lights in the bathroom and got creative with some torches.

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Hope you like this set as much as I liked creating them.
C & C welcome as always.

Zefan · 3 Mar 2008 at 23:25

Wow, I love them all!

Any chance you could post a link to the Rubik's cube picture at a higher res? I'd love it as my background (1920x1200)

Phate · 3 Mar 2008 at 23:35

Fantastic!

I have to ask, what are the balls though?

syke · 3 Mar 2008 at 23:40

How do you go about these, literally long exposure / shake the light etc?

Phate · 3 Mar 2008 at 23:43

syke said:
How do you go about these, literally long exposure / shake the light etc?

Most DSLR's allow you to set the exposure for 30 seconds or have a bulb mode which means it'll stay open for as long as you press the shutter. What most do for bulb mode is to use a remote shutter with a lock for long exposures (like a couple of minutes etc)

Wang · 3 Mar 2008 at 23:44

The Rubik's Cube is so good.

syke · 3 Mar 2008 at 23:49

Phate said:
Most DSLR's allow you to set the exposure for 30 seconds or have a bulb mode which means it'll stay open for as long as you press the shutter. What most do for bulb mode is to use a remote shutter with a lock for long exposures (like a couple of minutes etc)

Yeah was thinking it was basically that, so then just move the light around etc, and the bulb catches it.

BloodyL · 4 Mar 2008 at 00:01

Class, 1,2 & 5 are my favourites.

mks2005 · 4 Mar 2008 at 00:10

Wow, seriously cool.

GSXRMovistar · 4 Mar 2008 at 00:33

Order of preference 3, 2 then 1, but 3 is very cool indeed.

sunlitsix · 4 Mar 2008 at 00:54

all of the reflections give the pics a certain WOW factor
they all look great :cool:

pc-modd · 4 Mar 2008 at 08:33

oooo so shiny

Alex53 · 4 Mar 2008 at 08:45

Cool effects. I like the ones with the glass ball best.

So are those on a glass table and you 'painted' under the table? Or also above the table? They are LED torches right?

33L · 4 Mar 2008 at 08:55

Nice shots mate- makes me want to try this technique again.

Oxygen · 4 Mar 2008 at 09:10

Jefan said:
Wow, I love them all!

Any chance you could post a link to the Rubik's cube picture at a higher res? I'd love it as my background (1920x1200)

Sure, will send you a copy tonight to your mail in Trust

Thanks folks for the kind replys, I took them with a remote release on 8-10sec shutter speed and used two torches. The blue is a small led keyring and the yellow was a maglight.

Oxygen · 4 Mar 2008 at 09:20

Alex53 said:
Cool effects. I like the ones with the glass ball best.

So are those on a glass table and you 'painted' under the table? Or also above the table? They are LED torches right?

All taken on a metallic bathroom cabinet with the torch pointed directly down so the light was reflected off the surface.
My glass ball(s) is around 15cm in diameter. Its a glass paperweight that is blue in colour which I picked up from a car boot sale

mOdO · 4 Mar 2008 at 09:31

nice effect, might give it ago

Cosimo · 4 Mar 2008 at 10:44

Very cool effects, must give this a try.

Phate · 4 Mar 2008 at 12:55

If possible would it be possible to have a 1280 x 1024 of the 1st one please?

Great work all in all though, well done.

nolimit · 4 Mar 2008 at 13:09

looks cool, can I ask what object is #1 / #2 / #5 - it is very annoying that I can't work out what it is.