Experimenting with Lighting

The passing week has been an exciting and nouvelle one in terms of experiences. I spent two nights shooting stills at night (experimenting with longer exposures) and a day shooting B&W by the water way across where I live. The pictures will be posted later on in the week when I have time to convert them to JPEG, and as the title of this entry aptly stats, this one's about experimenting with lighting --which coincidentally enough, was a matter of happenstance!
I was at my friends house watching some old movies [on movieforumz.com] when I noticed this LED he had on his dresser and since I am able to bring my camera and laptop with me pretty much anywhere thanks to my amazing Crumpler backpack, I bring it everywhere I go. We started playing around with the effects it had on various everyday household items, when I stumbled across a bottle of water. The results speak for themselves :)
This image (to the right) was shot with an LED ice cube on a shag carpet. The exposure was at 2 sec. whereas the other images were shot with longer SSs . The image below and to the left was the product of stacking two of the LED cubes on top of one another. And the one underneath was a combination of the LED stick and cubes. The SSs for these two (stacked cubed) photos were fractions of a second as can be observed by the lighter backgrounds.
The photos turned out much better (I equate uniqueness and abstract as desirable) than I had ever thought possible, and much clearer than I imagined at such long shutter speeds. I would love it if Nestle happened to stumble across these photos and picked them off me (perhaps I can step up from prosumer to simply pro :P...k maybe I should learn to walk before running). On another point, Everything I write is random thoughts and with the explicit intention of filling the white spaced around and between my pictures --I mean common, it looks better no?

Ciao,

-h


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