“ swinging light ” I decided to make the image only the flashlight for this weeks challenge, this is a very simple, yet striking effect. The image was created by pinning a tiny torch to the ceiling on a bit of cotton and mounting my camera underneath. I set the shutter to bulb, and with a remote shutter started the capture after swinging the light. 68 seconds later, this was the result. I edited the image in Lightroom where I created a radial filter and changed the tone in the centre, then duplicated it and inverted it to change the tone outside the filter.
“ All in the light ” I struggled a little to come up with an idea again this week, so decided to go for the extra credit and do a self portrait. I started by trying different coloured clothes and backgrounds, but none were too impressive, so I decided to try a different idea, using coloured gels to create the complementary colours. I took quite a few different images, but eventually ran out of time, so had to make my choice. I quite liked the tones in this particular portrait, and although not perfect, I am happy with the result anyway.
“ Poppies ” Firstly, thank you to Eric West https://52frames.com/photographer/ericwest for editing this image for me, although it was hard to pick the edit I liked the best from my mini group #52streakers. I took this picture on Saturday morning as it was the first break in the weather all week, although I was hoping for some cloud, the sky was clear which wasn't as bad as the flat cloud it replaced. I took this at the end of blue hour as I had seen the poppies while driving home from work one morning and just knew the scene would look good provided the light was right. I used a 2 stop ND grad filter as the land was in a dip with the sun was about to rise behind me, so the sky was a lot brighter than the fields in the image. I was worried the poppies may have been flattened by the heavy rain. Photo Location: Lower Hardres, Kent, UK
