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Painting without a brush – Paint in motion II

timsdd — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:47:26 +0000

These are the last of ‘Round 2′. Round 1 was a small set just to get a feel. The images from R2 were much more technically and artistically pleasing IMO.

Round 3 were ones I shot with a 50mm lens instead of the 105mm macro. I also shot from a much lower vantage point with the 50. I went to a 4th round, back to the 105 and included more of the base of where the paint is launching from….figured I could always crop the bottom if I wanted.

Haven’t mentioned it before, but I apologize for the compression you see near the edges of some of the paint. Going from 2-3MB to a 75K web display really limits you sometimes, you can really see it here!

Painting without a brush – Paint in motion!!

timsdd — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:25:18 +0000

This first one rocks! Might be my favorite of the lot of them.

Need to experiment with the flashes more next time. The flat panel especially, try making the flash “less visible” in the paint by using a color but still getting enough illumination to highlight the paint.

Macro Paint Sculptures – Getting some amplitude II

timsdd — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:53:11 +0000

As you can see some of these were getting rather complex in terms of shapes and magnitudes. When in doubt, use more paint! I’m glad I dug out the BIG drop cloth so that I didn’t have any reservations in letting that paint fly!

Macro Paint Sculptures – Getting some amplitude!

timsdd — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:59:27 +0000

I kept one of these simply for what it looks like. I’ll leave you to guess which one and why!

Some of these are getting some serious amplitude. I shot some more today and knowing that I let it fly since I had put down a much more comprehensive drop cloth!

At some point I’ll need to try other songs too, I imagine that will make a difference, how great I cannot speculate. My guess (I guess I will speculate) is that it will be small but the key would be finding one with some serious bass sequences, both frequency and duration intervals.

Macro Paint Sculptures – A Study

timsdd — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:43:36 +0000

I need, I say I need go find that video that gave me the inspiration to try this. One, to give them some love for the idea but two, to see if I can improve on mine some more. They were actually using ink, not paint. What i found is that some thinner paint made all the difference as you will see in subsequent posts. I had some orange paint that really lit it up, it just happened to be thinner than the other colors.

And yes, red + blue = purple! But boy, the dark blue and the even darker purple proved most difficult to light! I think I need full power flash if I ever try the straight blue and or purple next time. As these are, both the main ring flash on camera and the slave camera left were @ 1/2 power manual modes. I also had a 3rd flash camera right but I am not sure what impact it had to tell you the truth!

I guess I should try adding them one at a time to see the various elements when lit!