{"id":239,"date":"2020-04-21T12:52:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T12:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:03:30","slug":"2020-4-21-fun-with-colored-lights-61819","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Fun with colored lights – 6\/18\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Another inside photography day. This time I was playing around with this cool mirror my significant other brought home, and the lights I had plus some colored gels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 5D Mark II w\/28-135 @33 – 1\/13 Sec – F5.6 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The first thing I wanted to do was just get a picture of the cool wolf artwork on this mirror. I really liked how it looked, but getting an image required a number of tries to get it right.<\/p>\n

Firstly I had to set up the camera on a tripod with a remote trigger. And raise it slightly above the subject looking down at an angle. That way I could hold up some black foam board and make a nice clean reflection. <\/p>\n

Once I figured I had gotten a good enough image of this, I moved on to putting colored gel over the lights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 5D Mark II w\/28-135mm @28 – 0.6 Sec – F5.6 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red on one side and blue on the other. Clashed to make some cool purple in the middle. While I thought this was cool, how would I do it to keep the colors separate I wonder\u2026 hmm.<\/p>\n

What if I put another piece of foam board right in the middle so it would block out the light coming from the other side? <\/p>\n

That sounds easy but it actually turned out to be harder than I thought. First I had to turn the whole mirror upside down I could press the foam board right up against the mirror. But it only touched the frame, letting light bleed through. So I used a piece of black cloth I used for backdrops in other projects to stuff the gap it had made. <\/p>\n

It took significantly more tries at this, the trick became how to take a long exposure without moving, but holding 3 different things perfectly still. One of which being the foam board directly in front of the lens so it would appear as small as possible. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 5D Mark II w\/28-135mm @28 – 0.6 Sec – F5.6 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In the end it came out looking like that. Not too bad if I do say so myself. A fun little project playing around with light and color.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another inside photography day. This time I was playing around with this cool mirror my significant other brought home, and the lights I had plus some colored gels. The first thing I wanted to do was just get a picture of the cool wolf artwork on this mirror. I really liked how it looked, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}