KODA

Yesterday in the car, I was experimenting with some long exposure photography. For the last few months I’ve had a bit of an obsession with light painting, a technique of drawing forms with point light sources in a dark environment (example). Well, more recently, I’ve been interested in pursuing the opposite effect. Essentially my thinking is that with light painting, your base color is dark, and you draw colored light in contrast to it. Well, I’m flipping it around, making the base color white and the less intense objects the contrast.

I’ve been experimenting with quarter to half second shutter speeds in bright environments, with the goal of having light elements wash out leaving less intense objects motion blurred and distorted in an abstract way. This achieves a similar, desirable light painting look, but with more spread out color and a white background. It’s really just a quite roundabout way to say I’m overexposing motion-blurred images for effect, but that’s not as cool, is it?

So, yesterday, I was shooting pictures straight up through the car windshield at trees overhead (don’t worry kiddies, I was a passenger). This produced a really neat painterly effect. The result is a splash of green color, very chaotic but still resembling the trees. Kind of like a paint splash, kind of like a time warp. The quality of this first batch isn’t all that great, because I was shooting through both sunglasses and a car windshield, but the images are quite cool, and they make nice wallpapers. I’ve put one such picture up for you to view in the wallpaper gallery, seen in the top right of this post, and am procrastinating in processing some others from the same ride.