About last night

Last night I went out for a second attempt at spinning steel wool. After waiting for almost 30 minutes for the muggles to leave, I had the place to myself and ended up getting the results I was after. Not exactly perfection, but also pretty good for only my second time out.

Since the location had a sign posted “No Fireworks” and I didn’t want to have a semantic argument with security about the differences between fireworks and steel wool, I got the hell out of there within 60 seconds of finishing the shot. I think it was worth it.

After that I went to Camp Robinson to practice painting some of the static displays with a flashlight. I learned quite a bit about the technique but only came away with a couple of useable photos. I tried a little experiment with lightpainting some flames under one of the tanks with some electroluminescent wire but the results weren’t what I had in mind. So while I’ll show the final produce here, I plan to leave it out of my gallery until I can learn to get the results I want.

I’m looking forward to tonight. My father and I are going to take some night shots around the city. It should be both fun and productive if the weather cooperates. I’ll post the results as soon as I can.