August challenge - the ones that got away!

[Dennis]

August challenge - the ones that got away!

Here are some of the other subjects I tried. The candle flame was augmented by a few drops of meths – WARNING: kids, don’t try this at home!

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy (David)]

wonderful artistic shots dennis, how did you do the first one?

[iceman (Mike)]

Great rejects, Dennis.. A lot of thought put into those, well composed and executed.

[RB (Andrew)]

You never cease to amaze me Dennis.
Wonderful shots, very artistic and a great imagination.

[Dennis]

Thanks Dave, Mike & Andrew.

I shot these in the garage, in the dark with the subject matter on an aluminium sheet using a 35mm slide projector for side on illumination.

The candle flame was augmented by carefully dripping drops of methylated spirits onto the flame, using 4 sec exposures. Here is a plain shot of the (then intact) candle.

The tomatoes are on top of my light box used for taking flats at the telescope! A 20 sec exposure that required darks to be subtracted – sheesh, what a nerd!

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman (Mike)]

The candle looks like a tomato on fire

Darks eh? Yes, very nerdy

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by iceman

The candle looks like a tomato on fire

Darks eh? Yes, very nerdy

Tomatoes flambé

Hee hee hee

[earthlight (Anne-Louise)]

Great pics Dennis. It was so hard to choose wasn't it? I do love the flame, cool idea.

These are a few I was toying with. I still like this bee image (it's a great desktop) and the red hands (rather hard to clean up :-) but he had fun!). The one I ended up entering just had a wow factor I didn't think was in these.

But who know what everyone will like. This has been fun to do this month. I wish I'd looked down the forum page when I first joined but I doubt I would have had time before the Astrofest this year. The photo from there was taken from the hession fence. As you can see there is a lot of red light comming from the laptops!

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earthlight