Light Sticks

[MarkBarbieri]

Our neighborhood has been without power since Hurricane Ike went through. While the weather was pleasant, we had outdoor dinner parties at different neighbor's houses each evening. One night, someone broke out several packs of light sticks. I grabbed my camera and took some long exposure shots. I probably should have used some strobes to "anchor" the shots, but I was too lazy to go home and search the dark house for them.

I didn't really have a plan for the shots. For most of them I just set up the tripod and let the kids do whatever they felt like doing. Most were shot in manual mode with random guesses for the exposure.

I don't have my main computer running yet, so I did extremely minimal processing on my laptop. If I get inspired, I'll spend more time on them later. You can see all of the shots here.

[J Eddington]

Now that looks like a great thing to do when you have no power! 3 and 4 are my personal favs.

[arcproducts]

Mark, cool shots. thinking to grab the camera = two thumbs up. Nice idea for neighbor dinners. We were grilling all our 'good stuff' with next door neighbor, alternating who supplied the main dish. We ate pretty darn good the first few days.

We know we can always count on you to come up with some fun photos. Thanks for sharing.

[DangerouslyMoody]

I can't see your pictures here at work but I did something similar with glow sticks...nothing better to do when you are bored outta your mind and its pitch black in the house!! I will have to post some up once I get power back at home and can load em to the computer :)

[stacie]

These are cool!

[stargal01]

way, way, way cool!!!!

stacie!! it's good to see you again!!!

[toverman]

Awesome. Shows how much some kids can move!