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Fun with Toys
By sirsnapalot | July 18, 2008
A couple of months ago, I picked up a toy at a tradeshow (put on by RIM, the maker of the Blackberry). It was a silly keychain with a bundle of cheap fiber optics coming out one end. Orange, a huge cellular operator in Europe was giving them away.
Fiber Optic Toy
I have given up taking such crap usually because it ends up in the trash. But, this one was different- I knew I could make some use of it with my Picture365 project. You see, I’m always looking for lights or optics that can be useful when you need to be creative and try something different.
In a dark room on evening, I set the camera on a tripod and set it on 2s exposures, with a 3s timer delay so the camera would stop shaking after I pressed the shutter release. During the countdown, I started twirling the fibers in front of the lens, so the motion would be smooth.
The toy color shifts fairly rapidly, and acted as a shifting paintbrush as I painted various shapes onto the photo, looking like some an extremely colorful aurora borealis.
These were probably two of the better ones- some went off the edge of the photo, as you can’t tell precisely where you are going. But the beauty of digital is that you just keep trying, and you’ll get some that come out great!
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December 24th, 2008 at 20:15
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