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}
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.
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.
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...
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..."
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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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
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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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.
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...
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}