Not really a walk well, we did walk along the beach a short way.... This evening Chris and I decided to have a go at wire wool pictures. The idea is quite simple - you set fire to it, move it about and do some long exposure shots. So, armed with wire wool, a whisk on a piece of cord, lighter, 9v battery (can be used for lighting), a pair of gloves, cameras and tripods and dressed in darkish clothes we set off.
We soon realised it needed to be much darker than we had thought from watching videos on Youtube. An hour after the (publicised) time that the sun had set there was still too much light in the sky. Eventually, it went dark enough and we got some shots.
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| Dome |
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| First orb - colour treated |
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| Low dome - colour treated |
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| Orb - second attempt |
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| Low dome |
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| Walking up the beach |
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Walking up the beach - colour treated
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So, what did we find out from our first attempt? Well, you need to have less zoom - I managed to chop bits off most of them. Head covering is required as are the gloves. Now we just need some different locations!
Following on from the wire wool experiment, we decided to see if we could get any pictures of the meteor shower. We did see a number of meteors, leaving trails as they blazed across the night sky but unfortunately, they were too unpredictable and infrequent for pictures
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