{"id":242,"date":"2009-01-26T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T09:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-01-26T11:16:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T10:16:29","slug":"lighting-up-a-dark-winters-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/26\/lighting-up-a-dark-winters-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting up A dark Winters Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So It the U.K. is Winter its dark what do you do? Well these happen to be ideal conditions to mess around with Light. In a camera and L.E.D. (light emitting diode) way. So the London flickr group met up any painted the town red, well not actual red we did try but had no good results although others did. So I mainly painted in white, as i forgot to bring the green L.E.D with me. We also had a poi which had lights in brought along.<\/p>\n<p>[photoxhibit=2]<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the better results.<\/p>\n<p>From a photographic point of view I found setting exposer times of around 30 seconds allowed you to draw most things. I did some test to get the background exposed right first, altering\u00c2\u00a0 the aperture till 30 seconds  gave the designed back ground. Then start the shutter no need even for a time delay just walk in front and draw.<\/p>\n<p>The advantage of the digital was clear as you could instaly see the results and try again.<\/p>\n<p>The night was very could and after about two hours, the hands were ice blocks so every one retiaued to the pub \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So It the U.K. is Winter its dark what do you do? Well these happen to be ideal conditions to mess around with Light. In a camera and L.E.D. (light emitting diode) way. So the London flickr group met up any painted the town red, well not actual red we did try but had no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T97-3U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/29\/new-york-trip-tips\/","url_meta":{"origin":242,"position":0},"title":"New York Trip Tips","date":"Tuesday, 29 May 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"These are travel tips from are recent trip to New york, As this post may hang around in cyber space for some time this was in May of 2007. 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