Luminous Festival In Sydney

[RB (Andrew)]

The Luminous Festival in Sydney is a celebration of Light and music curated by Brian Eno and is part of the Vivid exhibition.
Each night the Opera House sails are lit with coloured light and patterns which are randomly generated and continuously morphed.

I had the opportunity to go down this weekend and photograph this amazing display.
Saturday night was raining so I took shelter under the Overseas passenger terminal but I wasn't happy with the angle so I returned last night and shot from a different location since it wasn't raining.

Hope you enjoy, I'll post more later when I get a chance to process them all.

[iceman (Mike)]

Amazing! I was hoping to get down there to photograph this, but I'll enjoy it through your images instead.

[Dennis]

Hi Andrew

You have produced a stunning photo of this iconic building. I had a look at the website and was surprised not to see your photo displayed! I downloaded the media kit and I couldn’t find anything to indicate the artistry portrayed in your photograph, so thanks for making this accessible to non-Sydney siders!

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy (David)]

Brilliant RB - oh that is a wonderful Image, I am in awe mate

[astro_south (Andrew)]

Wow - that looks great. Looking forward to the rest!

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Very nice indeed
Hoping to have a look myself tonight.

[Liz]

WOWOW ... that is brilliant for sure RB, thank you
Also look forward to the rest.

[erick (Eric)]

After seeing on the tel, I was waiting for the shots to appear here. Not disappointed, Jan!

[Quark (Trevor)]

How cool is that!!!

Top image Andrew and I suspect extremely unique, not ever day is the old Opera House illuminated in such a fashion.

Top Stuff
Regards
Trevor

[xstream (John)]

What can I say mate, I'm gobsmacked!

[sheeny (Al)]

Gorgeous shot, RB!

I was hoping an IISer would get some shots of the luminous festival.

Thanks!

Al.

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Brilliant shot Andrew!

Cheers,
Stephen

[norm]

Stunning shot RB! I took the family on Sat. night, but it was drizzling throughout. I was hoping it would change from its pink to another color, but it was not the case.

I've seen some photos of the MCA building with different colours and they looked pretty cool as well.

That photo will make a great background wallpaper

[Octane (Humayun)]

Andrew,

Nicely done. How many exposures did you take for this composite?

Regards,
Humayun

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Millions of photos of the Opera House around, but guarantee none of them will look the same as yours! Very pretty!

[gary]

Nice one Andrew! Beautiful shot! Was hoping someone would post some shots.

We're going to see Eno play in the Opera House in a couple of weeks time
so will have a look at the lighting installation then.

Best Regards

Gary

P.S.

As Brian Eno once said in a BBC interview, he is only interested in "quantity not
quality", so you might want to stick to the artist's spirit and keep them photos
pouring out

[RB (Andrew)]

Thank you for your kind comments everyone, I really appreciate your feedback.
I'm sorry it took this long to reply, I had another one of my migraine attacks and have been laid up in bed for the last few days.
Hopefully I'll be back on deck by tomorrow.

Until then the other photos will have to wait till I'm feeling better, I can't wait to process and present them.
My youngest daughter is constantly on my case as she loves the colour purple and I promised her I would image the Opera House in purple for her.

Thanks again for your replies.

Originally Posted by norm

Stunning shot RB! I took the family on Sat. night, but it was drizzling throughout. I was hoping it would change from its pink to another color, but it was not the case.

I've seen some photos of the MCA building with different colours and they looked pretty cool as well.

That photo will make a great background wallpaper

Norm it's a shame I didn't know you were down there we could have met up.
I was undercover in the Overseas Passenger Terminal on Saturday, but it was constantly drizzling all night.
The colours change at a random time interval between 5 and 20 minutes, so you must have seen a long interval.
LOL I must have stayed down there about 3 hours.

Originally Posted by Octane

Andrew,

Nicely done. How many exposures did you take for this composite?

Regards,
Humayun

It's a composite of 12 different exposures, allowing me to capture a very wide gamut of colour and light intensity while avoiding blowing out highlights.

Originally Posted by gary

Nice one Andrew! Beautiful shot! Was hoping someone would post some shots.

We're going to see Eno play in the Opera House in a couple of weeks time
so will have a look at the lighting installation then.

Best Regards

Gary

P.S.

As Brian Eno once said in a BBC interview, he is only interested in "quantity not
quality", so you might want to stick to the artist's spirit and keep them photos
pouring out

You're in for a treat Gary I'm sure !!
Looking forward to hearing about the show.

Yes indeed, quantity over quality........
(I was lucky I didn't get arrested for "land squatting" since I was there for so long waiting for the patterns to change.

[Inmykombi (Geoff)]

Wow RB that is a wonderful image.
I am sorry I missed seing this in person, but you have captured it very very well.
Well done.

Geoffro.

[ving (David)]

i expected you to come up with something from this event... excelent shots sir!

[RB (Andrew)]

Thank you Geoff and David.

I have just finished putting together a gallery of some of the more interesting colours and patterns and have also included some close up shots of the Opera House.

These images were taken on three seperate ocassions and at times it was raining which made it harder to photograph properly.

All done in HDR(tonemaped) with 12 exposures per frame.

You can click on the link below to view the gallery.

I hope you enjoy.



'Luminous' Gallery