Faceless – (c) 2014 Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/10 and Shutter Speed: 103 s
out front – no filters..just some crazy sculpture.

watch your back
I walked past this sculpture at some silly hour of the night and nearly fell off the cliff when I saw it, it was tucked away in a little alcove near the path ready to freak out the average passerby.

After recovering from a near heart attack as a result of it, i thought this sculpture would look mad with a little extra in the lighting department, so 5 minutes later after dangling some EL wire and a little selective coloured lighting I found the already scary white sculpture took on a extra dimensions of freaky-ness..

With camera right up against the guard rail the D750 tilt screen came to the rescue – i do wish it could swivel though.. 🙂 anyway at least it meant i did not have to hang my ass over the cliff to compose the shot. .

Lightpainting:
EL wire on the ground, white LED torch selectively applied on the bushes in the background, Red coloured LED torch also selectively applied. The key to remember with the coloured torches is that different colours require differencet amount of exposure, for example the red light takes only a small amount to show up in the picture whereas green takes a bit more time to really get it to show up..I could probably bore you with the theory behind this..but really.. who gives a crap 😉

Techie love data
Single shot
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/10 and Shutter Speed: 103 s
out front – no filters..just some crazy sculpture.

All along THE Watch tower – (c) Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 19mm Aperture: f/19 and Shutter Speed: 104.4s
out front – no filters..just some crazy tall cubby houses
Lightpainting: coloured LED torch

Simplicity is often the best when light painting, like any aspect of photography, its all about the light, get it right and it makes the scene, get it wrong and even a strong composition is gonna struggle.

I took this shot whilst walking between sculptures, it was late and very few people around, the sky was bright and the simple adding of some coloured light brought the sculpture alive.

This year with the sculptures I tried very hard ot take fewer shots and nail the single shot rather have to cull thru several shots for each sculpture i shot. This is one example, this is the only shot I took of this, no retakes or second chances 🙂

Techie love data
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 19mm Aperture: f/19 and Shutter Speed: 104.4s
out front – no filters..just some crazy tall cubby houses
Lightpainting: coloured LED torch

Dance to the Edge Punks – (c) Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/10 and Shutter Speed: 180.2s
out front – no filters..just in need of some pole dancers…
Lightpainting: EL steps, chaos’s fairy wands, coloured LED torch and some very faint EL wire.

pick a podium and run with it
Probably not quite the original intention of the sculpture artist but hey…. I reckon it looks pretty mad 🙂

The full moon played some havoc with the Electroluminescent wire which meant I went for another look using some stronger lights and my classic footprints.

Techie love data
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/10 and Shutter Speed: 180.2s
out front – no filters..just in need of some pole dancers…
Lightpainting: EL steps, chaos’s fairy wands, coloured LED torch and some very faint EL wire.

The Punisher – (c) Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 17mm Aperture: f/9 and Shutter Speed: 74.9s
out front – no filters..just a burly looking dude 🙂
Lightpainting: selective light with a pencil torch on the man, coloured LED torch from various angels and the moon as the perfect rim light.

the dude you want on your side

The moonlight (full moonage) on the sculptures turned the landscape into a totally different scene, hence it was only appropriate to utilise natures light painting in a way to craft a moody scene surrounding this sculpture.
Another great sculpture let down by the positioning, whilst it makes a great silhouette from down below lookign up on the little hill, it unfortunately is very hard to get a nice clean shot with all the crud in the background. Now that I think o fit…this could have been a great candidate for the prime platform position where the bamboo wind chimes currently are.

Techie love data
Single frame
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 17mm Aperture: f/9 and Shutter Speed: 74.9s
out front – no filters..just a burly looking dude 🙂
Lightpainting: selective light with a pencil torch on the man, coloured LED torch from various angels and the moon as the perfect rim light.

+Sculptures By The Sea

Tranquility in a sea of mud – (c) Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/9 and Shutter Speed: 117.7s
out front – no filters..just a funny dude with a branch sculpture :

I love these kind of sculptures, relatively simple concept, ie a dude holding a branch with some birds in it and lots of realistic detail – it must take the artist quite some time and skill just to actually fabricate the sculpture, let alone conceive it.
This one is a direct opposite, for me anyway, of the babies crawling up the hill on the other side of Mark’s park they looked great from the back the whole missing face/square hole just left me confused.

I had wanted to get right down low and really get this sculpture against the sky, however after planting a few steps down on that very deceptive looking grass (and sinking into 6 inches of mud) I had to settle for this composition, which was basically sitting on the pavement above the sculpture. It was strange that the curators chose to place it here, i think it could have really benefited from a more elevated viewing position – note +Sculptures By The Sea if you need some advice just let me know 😉 😉 . Thanks to Mickyg for the use of the spin and the stencils, really cool light painting tools. I can only take credit for the light on the grass (i mean mud) and the sculpture.

Techie love data
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/9 and Shutter Speed: 117.7s
out front – no filters..just a funny dude with a branch sculpture 🙂