Challenge update 19th Jan

Challenge update 19th Jan

The most fun challenge so far was the lighted match, had three sessions attempting to get a good picture and took nearly 1,300 images. Using the Olympus on silent high speed sequence can get as high as 60fps. Not sure how many fps I got in the setup I was using but it was impressive.

For the shots I took I used a plamp to hold the match, a couple of LED lights to try and illuminate the match stick and lit the match using a second match or a taper. Best images were using f/8 and 1/2000 of second for the exposure and an ISO of 400

For the final part of the third session I used a Godox AD200 flash with the X1 trigger for the Micro Four Thirds camera to capture the smoke from the matches using single shot mode.

Follow on

I will be coming back to this topic and looking at capturing smoke later in the year as a separate project. Definitely going to try and capture smoke using flash and coloured gels. Would also like to try get a picture of a match been struck on the side of a match box.

This coming week's challenge

Trying to interpret 'Water in Action' keeping in mind the different states of water - ice, water, steam. Going to be looking at ice cubes, pouring of boiling water in addition to other ideas.

Next challenges

Looking at what to do and how to do it for the next challenges.

Water (Target date - Sun 26th Jan)

Water moves, boils, steams, freezes… in your picture interpret ‘Water in Action’.

Egg (Target date - Sun 2nd Feb)

Whether a food project or a work of art – we want the best photo of an egg!

Rule of thirds (Target date - Sun 9th Feb)

Demonstrate the rule of thirds.in a photography