Posted by Jondoe_264 http://farm3.stati...4_70cf2220f3_o.jpg I quite like this pic. Diffused Fenix PD30 in manhole/stairway passage. Tesco 3 watt AA Cree led, minus lens for wide even fill, placed just out of shot to left of camera. Fenix TK40 handheld. Note the faint white trail through the shot was a big clump of soap suds that seemed to appear from nowhere and float through the scene.

Have you completely removed incandescent supertorches from your arsenal? I ask, watching your photos evolve over the past year, and after spending time with Zero (and witnessing the life and death of your Fenix), I'm starting to ponder moving into the realm of smaller pocket torches, as they seem to produce blander, more real-to-life colours. Not to mention, it'll cut the size of my draining kit pretty significantly.

Posted by Bryan Have you completely removed incandescent supertorches from your arsenal? I ask, watching your photos evolve over the past year, and after spending time with Zero (and witnessing the life and death of your Fenix), I'm starting to ponder moving into the realm of smaller pocket torches, as they seem to produce blander, more real-to-life colours. Not to mention, it'll cut the size of my draining kit pretty significantly.

I happened to see you yesterday, descending on an ATC, about the point of the Fenix's last resting place. ;) Amused to hear that my boat is still there

Personally I have dropped the zillion candle power supertorches and the rechargeable fluorescent tube strip lights, almost completely out of the convenience of not having to carry around such big items. I've managed to all but match the cast of the incandescent torch via a coloured diffuser for the Fenix, but I haven't used it much. I have found that I'm taking more pictures that are evenly exposed, with more true-to-life colours, I guess more documentary than dramatic. Currently this also suits what I'm working on, on the literary side of things.

I can't imagine I'll ever switch back to taking those larger items out on a regular basis again, such a pain, I'm already too used to travelling light.

Not only was this exposure of steel wool vastly too long, but one piece of flaming debris melted a hole through the sports towel I had over the camera, and blistered the lens hood underneath. Oh, and thankfully we spotted the grass fire we started, and stomped it out before it progressed!

Posted by metawaffle Not only was this exposure of steel wool vastly too long, but one piece of flaming debris melted a hole through the sports towel I had over the camera, and blistered the lens hood underneath. Oh, and thankfully we spotted the grass fire we started, and stomped it out before it progressed! http://lh4.ggpht.c.../s800/breaker2.jpg

Completely worth it imho. Lovely.

Posted by metawaffle Oh, and thankfully we spotted the grass fire we started, and stomped it out before it progressed! http://lh4.ggpht.c.../s800/breaker2.jpg

Love the setting for this shot, would have liked to see the face considering you're facing the camera. But as Rob said "well worth it".

P.S I've had a few close calls with "grass" fires.

Posted by Man Underground Love the setting for this shot, would have liked to see the face considering you're facing the camera. But as Rob said "well worth it". P.S I've had a few close calls with "grass" fires.

We had steel wool with us, but not the cotton string I'd usually use, or the u-shackles with which I'd fasten everything. Instead, it was thin acrylic string, which melted in seconds! So, after two attempts, it being after midnight anyway, we called it quits. I'd like to have spun it more quickly, actually, and thrown the sparks over the camera instead of in front of it...

Oh, and after seeing what a fragment of burning metal did to my camera, I can understand why it hurts when it hits skin

..sadly for me, I'm kinda used to the burns. My arm sometimes looks like I've been scratching due to some kind of withdrawal. But the octopus has a nasty burn that's still trying to heal.

Sloths

altered WB on board the camera

It took me a while to look away from that one - mesmerising...

My first attempt at lighting painting with film. Pitch black room.

Posted by yokes My first attempt at lighting painting with film. Pitch black room. http://farm5.stati...584_c2242db1d6.jpg

Very smooth.

Posted by yokes My first attempt at lighting painting with film. Pitch black room. http://farm5.stati...584_c2242db1d6.jpg

how long was the exposure and what did you use?

I think the exposure was somewhere around 5mins or so. Pure guess. to paint I just used my deal extreme 900lumens (or whatever) flashlight.

Posted by yokes I think the exposure was somewhere around 5mins or so. Pure guess. to paint I just used my deal extreme 900lumens (or whatever) flashlight.

I was going to say it didn't look like a Garrity Job. Its nice.

Just playing around with that new Quark RGB - no real thought behind this shot, just silliness with a new toy!

sick!, is that all you's?

Posted by HI-LITE sick!, is that all you's?

It is! I ended up doing each pipe as a separate frame, as my cable socket is broken and I'm limited to 30 second exposures right now. It was easier than climbing around in the dark, anyway The composite image was trivially easy, as everything in each frame, other than the pipe in question, was black!

Though, with cable socket broken, I couldn't use a wireless remote, and so had to walk back to the camera each time...

Another version of the last shot - this one was all in one colour, though. Originally, it was blue, but I tweaked the colour after the fact. Given that I did that, I might as well have shot this with white light

Posted by metawaffle Another version of the last shot - this one was all in one colour, though. Originally, it was blue, but I tweaked the colour after the fact. Given that I did that, I might as well have shot this with white light http://lh3.ggpht.c...00/draincolour.jpg

such an odd design. This is pincushion, right?

Posted by Air 33 such an odd design. This is pincushion, right?

It sure is. I haven't seen this design used anywhere else in this city - makes you wonder if some civil engineer just got a bit bored one day and decided to do something different.