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Your favorite type of light?

inspiron
11/08/04 3:35 AM GMT
what is your favorite typeo of light?

I love thoes yellow sodium vapor lightes used in street lights but the best are the realy bright white lights used in football and baseball stadiums, I don't like football or baseball but I would go just for lights since they are sooo bright and it is like day but brighter and more white and it just being under the lights is like a shot of adrenaline.

[edit, I said mercury vapor when It was realy sodium vapor}
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::stuffnstuff
11/08/04 4:14 AM GMT
Interesting. Is it legal to input a quote from my favorite game from Home Star Runner? "Pretty average. You're not a big well person. You're more into bridges. It does have a cute little bucket though. Your dad liked buckets. Oh, and there is a metal crank, too. Meemaw loved cranks." Sorry, I just think talking about weird objects is funny. :-) To answer your question, mostly I like those funky table-top ones filled with leectric beams that move (they are usually blue and purple). Okay, that sounds vague, but I can't describe it any better. Those look the most fun, but I also like stage lighting; it could be strobes or black lights of large proportions, but the moving ones with assignable chase patterns are the most fun to mess with. Wow, I need to learn how to effectively communicate in a more understandable way, because it certainly isn't working tonight.
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brphoto
11/08/04 4:21 AM GMT
The orange ones are actually Sodium-vapor; white ones are either Mercury or Metal Halide. Good stadium lighting is actually pretty hard to shoot under, it’s still darker than day, so the camera’s autofocus tracking capabilities are slightly diminished. On a positive note, the camera's auto white balance handles the Mercury lights well. I suppose off-camera strobes (not the ones that just flash for the cool effect, but photographic strobes) produce the best light to shoot under, as you have total control over it.
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inspiron
11/08/04 4:34 AM GMT
Awe shoot, well thanks for noticeing my mistake there.

Going to fix that.
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+camerahound
11/08/04 6:16 AM GMT
I love backlight of most any source.
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brphoto
11/08/04 6:20 AM GMT
Backlighting is great, albeit tricky when it comes to exposure
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"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
=xentrik
11/08/04 7:23 AM GMT
Are you talking for photos or just in general? Because the little blue-white LEDs are incredibly spiffy. I've got a bunch of them in various things, and I'm especially fond of the Tikka headlamp. Leave it to an EE (who camps a lot) to gush over random components.

Not that they're great for taking photos, but I did a couple interesting macros in the dark with the help of a Pulsar (keychain light). Set up the camera on a tripod for a long exposure (couple seconds) with no flash, but hit the subject with a flash from a different angle from the squeeze-light. Dark frame with a single subject and no PS work... I thought it was a neat effect.

As for other random lights, lava lamps are pretty darn cool to watch too...
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+Samatar
11/08/04 7:33 AM GMT
Personally, I love the spotlight.

*Dons top hat*
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=xentrik
11/08/04 11:10 PM GMT
Bravo, Sam, Bravo!

I've changed my mind, though. My favorite light is sunlight, preferably an hour or two before sunset, when the sun's really low and backlights what it's behind and casts long, deep shadows on everything else.

"Oh the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace..."
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+mayne
11/09/04 6:05 AM GMT
Northern lights and the full moon light over a snowy landscape is very magical...has to be my favourite.
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Darryl
Paws_of_GT
11/09/04 7:48 AM GMT
Strobe light on the dancefloor, especially if I have a pair of glo sticks. Combine that with some UV lighting & I am in heaven. (Well if God is a D.J is being played anyhoo.)
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::noobguy
11/09/04 1:01 PM GMT
green traffic lights
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+Piner
11/09/04 5:54 PM GMT
Paws_of_GT beat me to it. Strobe lights can give you some neat effects for a photo, depending on strobe speed and the exposure time.
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Paws_of_GT
11/10/04 1:31 AM GMT
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http://ganjataz.com/flash_by-gt/the_raver.gif
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I am like Yin & Yang, my lighter side is balanced by my darkerside, embrace both & you get the whole me, play with one & you will meet the other... www.ganjataz.com ~ www.ganjataz.co.uk
Paws_of_GT
11/10/04 1:33 AM GMT
Oh, & it's a gif, not a flash file but I keep it in me flash folder so I know where it is.
it's just a 1124kb sample of some serious strobe footage I turned into a gif ages ago at a concert.
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*caedes
11/10/04 1:38 AM GMT
coherent
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d_spin_9
11/10/04 3:39 PM GMT
i'm with noobguy on this one, other type of light are great, but green lights can really bring a smile to your face:P
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inspiron
11/11/04 12:43 AM GMT
Well some of thoes traffic lights are leds (light immiting diodes) and if you wanted to you could go down to a radio shack or your nearest electronics store and you could pick up a whole bunch of green lights for the cost of a bagle or one blue one for the same amount.

I just know since I loved to buy electronics and make simple circuts with leds and the blue ones were and still are my favorite.
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i like to eat pie!
prismmagic
11/11/04 1:43 AM GMT
1 hour before sunset, one hour after sun rise, and of course studio light.
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bjb
11/11/04 3:33 AM GMT
Candle, fireplace, and campfire. ;)
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prismmagic
11/11/04 10:24 AM GMT
I can agree with that! Good for you BJ. A trough woman, always looking for the best!
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Art is the perception of the creator. Meaning is the perception of the viewer. acceptance is the perception of society.
trisweb
11/19/04 8:45 PM GMT
Nothing like the good ol' sun at magic hour. That's what Clayton said -- hour before sunset, hour after sunrise. Most amazingly pure and colorful light there is, and at such an angle as to create the greatest contrasts and distinctions...
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+Piner
11/19/04 8:56 PM GMT
Actually, I like that hour after sunset and the hour before sunrise, that is when you get the most variation of colors in the sky.
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from an artist is to make him ruin his work. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1832)
::stuffnstuff
11/19/04 9:25 PM GMT
I haven't experienced photography under different suns, but that could change something. Think blue! :-)
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-those who hit rock bottom are too concerned with self pity to realize that they are lying on an anvil- Psalm 66:10, Job 10:8

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