Tag: long exposure

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Light a fire.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography10 Comments

For this week’s foray into flammable photography, The Cosmic Photo Challenge is based on the prompt; Light a fire.

I tried out some long exposures, giving this gently crackling fire drum the look of a ferocious blast furnace (see final picture for original fire with no effects and guitarist for scale)

Were the fires of creativity burning for you this week? Let’s see what you have to share with us…

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Motion.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography9 Comments

Two days of rainy weather and a thunderstorm, with one short afternoon of sunshine, that’s what passes for an English summer weekend, apparently. So I took my pictures for The Cosmic Photo Challenge indoors.

Today we’re looking at; Motion.

I tried a few more long exposure experiments; there’s a moving shot with a clear and blurred image in the same frame and a quick burst of lightning for good measure. Each of these was captured in a single shot.

*edit: ok, it is the third time this has happened, so I’m blaming WordPress for the scheduling glitch, as this post was definitely set to post tomorrow morning.

What moving pictures did you find for us..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: In the evening.

On By dalecooper57In photography13 Comments

Hi there, I hope you had a pleasant weekend, but now it’s Monday again and time for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which today is based on the prompt; In the evening.

I seem to be the only person in the UK who didn’t see the Northern Lights on Friday or Saturday night, which was rather poor timing. I ended up capturing the end of the weekend down by the river, along with some long exposure shots of passing cars.

Now let’s see your dusky offerings, did any of you see the aurora..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: As the nights draw in.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography12 Comments

For The Cosmic Photo Challenge this week we are capturing the twilight hours, for the prompt; As the nights draw in.

Just the two shots from me today, although they do represent several hours worth of photography between them.

The first is a composite image of three moments in time from Saturday.

12noon 4pm 7pm

The second one is a shot of the night sky, taken with my phone mounted on the car windscreen; a long exposure of two hours, which includes the flight path of an aircraft and a few other celestial bodies.

What did the evening reveal to you at the weekend?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: In motion.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography13 Comments

Hi there, welcome to a bank holiday Monday edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, this week inspired by the prompt; In motion.

I was up at 3.30 on Saturday morning, for a long day of driving from Barnstaple to Heathrow airport and back. The sun rose as we were heading across Salisbury plain towards Stone Henge and by the time we arrived home again it was four in the afternoon.

I had my phone attached to the windscreen on a long-armed holder, meaning I barely needed to raise my hand from the wheel to take some genuinely moving pictures. (They were cropped and straightened later where necessary)

There are also a couple of timed long exposures using the same method, plus a convenient outtake from last week I didn’t realise I’d taken, walking by a pond on the golf course.

What kind of kinetic kompositions did you kapture for us at the weekend?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Around the garden.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography15 Comments

Hi there, I hope you had a good weekend in the fresh air, because this week on The Cosmic Photo Challenge we’re going to be looking; Around the garden.

I had to dodge the rain to capture my shots, the weather really hasn’t been very cooperative the last couple of weeks. I also did some experiments with long exposures during high winds, I like the juxtaposition of static image and movement.

How did your garden tour go, it’s time to show us around…

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The great wide open.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, nature photography, photography15 Comments

I thought the weather was turning against me at the weekend and getting out into The great wide open might have been more of a Cosmic Photo Challenge than usual, but yesterday the sun returned after a foggy start at the local vineyard.

By one o’clock it was roasting hot and I drove up to the wind farm on top of the river valley, where panoramas really are the only way to do the view justice. I was rather pleased with capturing four moving turbines in a single long exposure shot, plus I caught a couple of nice reflections.

Where in the great outdoors did you seek inspiration at the weekend..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Fun in the sun.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography12 Comments

Good day to you, wherever you may be, I hope you managed to have Fun in the sun at the weekend, to give you material for The Cosmic Photo Challenge today.

I took a walk around the local funfair, which has been in town for a couple of weeks, to try some experiments with long exposure pictures of the various spinning and undulating rides.

Also, because music is never far away from my weekend itinerary, I used a timelapse video of the fairground to provide a visual accompaniment to one of yesterday’s peculiar sonic adventures.

Now let’s have a look at your fun weekend…

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Intentional camera movement.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography14 Comments

This week’s edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge is brought to you by the prompt; Intentional camera movement.

There are many ways in which moving the camera mid-capture can alter the resulting image, so I decided to think outside the box and revisit a couple of techniques I’ve used before.

With the camera attached safely to my windscreen, it was certainly moving in relation to everything outside; while experimenting with mirrors and panoramic settings again was…well, predicably peculiar.

Now it’s time to share your out of focus fun…

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: As night falls.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography12 Comments

This week’s mission on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, assuming you’ve chosen to accept it, was to provide images for the prompt; As night falls.

{I will admit up front that at least one of the long exposures below was taken in the dark before dawn, not as night *fell* per se, but the spirit of the theme still holds…that’s my thinking, anyway}

Did you accomplish your mission? Right, time for your debriefing, let’s see those photos…

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.