It's been a while since I've posted a Sunday Flickr pool post. It seems like since the JimOnLight.com Pool started up, everybody has one now!I've been loving the stuff that has been popping up in the pool lately - lots of people are taking advantage of light and darkness with the stunning array of Light Art that's been hitting the JimOnLight.com Flickr Pool lately!Check out this week's picks: Nicola_Andrews, Reciprocity, BazPics, tackyshack, and JimOnLight.
Jim On Light is a blog about light: lighting, light and art, lighting devices, lighting control, lighting fixtures, concepts, and anything else that deals with light as its medium.
Jim on Light is written by Jim Hutchison, Chief Design Consultant of Alive Lighting. Jim has several years of experience in the Entertainment Lighting industry. Jim is a member of USA Local 829.
Posts Tagged ‘photography’
Sunday JimOnLight.com Flickr Pool
February 21st, 2010 by Jim
Posted in JimOnLight Readers ROCK, JimOnLight.com, Light and Photography, The JimOnLight.com Flickr Pool
Posted in JimOnLight Readers ROCK, JimOnLight.com, Light and Photography, The JimOnLight.com Flickr Pool
Icewolf’s Guide to Photography for Theatre
I gotta thank charlesDcharles on Twitter for sending this my way - if you read Icewolf's blog, then you've already seen this, but it's worthy of another mention!Icewolf has posted a pretty excellent and comprehensive guide to shooting for theatre - from camera basics to composition basics, to light meters and image processing in post. It's an excellent article, you should definitely check it out!Really, that's it for this post. Go get a coffee now, that's what I'm gonna do.
Technicolor Tesla Tannenbaum
Okay, I like Tesla coils just as much as the next lighting geek, but this is just too cool for school. Aron Altmark on Twitter (@aronaltmark) sent me a link to these amazing shots by the Tesla Down Under people of their Australian Tesla Christmas Tree.WAY COOL! Check them out! You also have to check out the Tesla Down Under page to see how he made this display, and to see how it compares to his past years' efforts. Well worth your pre-Christmas work time!
Materials Testing Under Different Light Sources
October 29th, 2009 by Jim
Posted in Education, Images and Pictures, Jim On Sweden, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Lamps and Sources, Light and Photography
Posted in Education, Images and Pictures, Jim On Sweden, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Lamps and Sources, Light and Photography
Now that I am back home and not in Sweden, I have been combing through some of the work that I did in my first few months at KTH. I took a lot of photographs of pretty much everything I could take photos of when I was in Sweden, and I got some interesting shots of a variety of things, including project work.One of the first projects we did in groups was the Materials Testing project. It was a very simple project with a goal more along the lines of working in groups that really much else - each group ... Read More»
Alan Jaras’ “Caustics” – Bending, Twisting, Broken Light
October 23rd, 2009 by Jim
Posted in Innovation, Light Art, Light and Photography, Lighting for Enjoyment!, artists
Posted in Innovation, Light Art, Light and Photography, Lighting for Enjoyment!, artists
My wonderful wife sent me a link to a new blog I can read called My Modern Met - the link was to light artist Alan Jaras' work with what he calls "caustics" - patterns of light that are cast by sending a beam of light through a plastic form that has texture and shape. The light cast through the plastic material is then captured directly onto 35mm film by taking away the lens and putting the transparent plastic in its place. Pretty cool, huh?Check out these images from Alan Jaras - and check out his Flickr page. He's "Reciprocity" ... Read More»
Household Flash Reflectors and Diffusers – David E. Jackson’s Experiment
I just read an excellent blog post from photographer David E. Jackson about altering the flash in photographs using household items like a cheese grater, a collander, a white plastic trash can, a metal mixing bowl, and some other stuff. David's experiment netted some outstanding results - two of my favorites were the collander and the plastic trash can - great stuff!Please check out David's blog post, and I used a few of his photos below:
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s “Lighting Fields Composed”
September 23rd, 2009 by Jim
Posted in Just Plain AWESOME., Light Art, Light and Photography, artists, electricity
Posted in Just Plain AWESOME., Light Art, Light and Photography, artists, electricity
Artist and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has a series of really beautiful photographs of electricity. The only thing that's different in these photographs, however, is how Hiroshi took the photos. By taking a high voltage source and applying it directly to the film, Hiroshi made these absolutely amazing works.One thing I like almost more than a work of art itself is understanding where the inspiration came from to create it. From Hiroshi Sugimoto's website: The word electricity is thought to derive from the ancient Greek elektron, meaning “amber.” When subject to friction, materials such as amber and fur produce an effect ... Read More»
Time-Lapse Helicopter Take-Off – Light Painting from 1949
Andreas Feininger's time-lapse Life Magazine photo of a helicopter taking off at night from 1949 is... amazing. With the Pablo Picasso light painting pictures from that year, I never imagined that 1949 was such a hotbed for light painting!Check these images out, they are amazing.I found these two initial images from Make, but once I did some digging, it was like Contrast Photo City. Check out these other beautiful images I found digging through the Life Magazine pile:Moving. Enough said.
Light and Art – A Few Lines Make The Mind Go Crazy
Chih-Han Hsu, a photographer and artist in Brisbane, Australia, has produced some really beautiful photos of models with a minimal amount of light. The even more beautiful thing Chih-Han's work is using lines of light projected onto the model.This work is really beautiful. Check it out:
An Invisible Flash – NYU Researchers Make the Flash Less Flashy
August 7th, 2009 by Jim
Posted in Innovation, Light and Photography, Research and Development, research
Posted in Innovation, Light and Photography, Research and Development, research
Researchers at New York University have figured out how to use light outside the visible spectrum to create invisible flash photographs - that's a flash without the flash, for the layperson. Using a series of filters and standard camera gear, they've created a novel solution to, among other things, red eye. No longer will cute dogs, adorable cats, and poor Grandma become the guardians for the gates of Hell in family photographs.The people responsible for this research, Dilip Krishnan and Rob Fergus, will be presenting their paper at the Siggraph conference in New Orleans this year.It's really quite an interesting ... Read More»
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