Flash Fright

One Minute open shutter and a hand held flash head off the camera fired manually.

If you stand in one place long enough someone will see you

Shutter Stutter

One Minute open shutter and a hand held flash head off camera fired manually as fast as I could push the button.

I like how the chain link fence becomes a tongue depressor.

Kennedy Plaza in winter

This Photo was taken on Kodachrome ASA 25 in the dead of winter.

At 2:00 in the morning it was about 5 deg. F. and all of the moisture had frozen out of the air leaving the atmospheric perspective very crisp. I didn’t write the exposure data down but what I remember it was taken with the shutter open for around 2 min. at an f. stop of probably around f8 – f11. I remember I had to manually raise the mirror before opening the shutter because it was so cold I was worried about the mirror detaching from its frame when the shutter tripped.

Green light

Timed exposure using a traffic light and a portable flash head off camera to create the exposure.

I metered the green traffic light with my flash meter and found the best exposure was to accumulate 3 cycles of the green light but I didn’t want to light the composition with the yellow or red cycles so I opened the shutter and covered the lens with my hand during those cycles of the light. Then I fired the flash manually off the camera and from a low angle to light the hydrant and foreground with correctly balanced white light.

graveyard shift

This a timed exposure using the Green cycle of a traffic light balanced with the light from a porch light across the street.

I metered the green traffic light with my flash meter and found the best exposure was to accumulate multiple cycles of the green light balanced with key light from a porch light shining on the tomb stone. I opened the shutter and covered the lens during yellow and red cycles of the traffic light. about a minute and half accumulated light on the Kodak ASA 100 color negative print film

Midnight

This was shot around midnight during a snow storm. It was about a 3 min exposure metered using the ambient background light for the basic exposure.

With the shutter open I then took a portable flash head and walked out into the composition and lit a couple monuments with the flash and with a light purple lighting gel taped over the flash lens guessing at the number of times to fire the flash. I don’t appear in the photo because of the length of the exposure and I was always moving and never spilled light onto myself.