Fun with LEDs

Got home today! It's nice to be back. After my family had Thanksgiving dinner, Victor and I went down to Maclin's house to take some pictures and play some games. For about an hour, we just did the latter, but we finally tore our selves away to figure out a picture.

Maclin has these epic LED strips he got, they're just a ton of LEDs daisy chained together in a waterproof strip that you can actually program to light different ways. They're all different colors and can change! Tres cool.

For about two hours, Maclin tried the lights to do a specific pattern. Apparently something kept going wrong. Victor and I were really helpful, we made targets out of yellow padded mailer and shot at them with some bows and arrows. :)

Finally, we gave up on the pattern, and just started playing with the lights. They got attached to a really long stick, so you could swing them around and make cool patterns. For this blog photo, Victor just went crazy with the lights, and it ended up working really well. It made really neat effect, having the light trail go in front of the others to create some space. The refresh rate on the LEDs made things interesting too, very interesting.

I shot at f/11, ISO100, and bulb. The lights were bright, so I could afford to stop down a bit and get more in focus.

Other than blub mode, there was nothing really special done for shooting. Just a dark garage and go to town with some LED strips.

Editing was really simple as well, the only thing I did was to darken the black patch to the left side of the image. There was a little detail of the room in that area, which had to go. Noting major though at all.

I'll get the rest of the photos from tonight edited soon, and posted! Stay tuned.

See you tomorrow!