Trapped in an echo of light - a photo on Flickriver

Assignment: PCA63 - Echo
Deadline: May 3, 2009
Image tag: pca63
From: Tim TheRed

Mission:
Well initially I was thinking the assignment would be "Abstract Concept" -- pick any non-concrete idea and try to depict it.
But that seemed way to broad. I needed something more specific.

Then, along a different path, "Repeated Pattern" was one of my top choices for a more concrete assignment.

So I settled on "Echo". The abstract concept of a repeated or reflected pattern.

Note: Feel free to keep this semantically abstract. It's going to be challenging (though quite acceptable and perhaps very interesting) if you're trying to photograph reflected sound waves. But if you think outside the box, "echo" can have a lot of meanings.

WIT: I've done a couple ghost images before so I kind of wanted to do another ghost as well as a long exposure to get a feeling of an echo...

Reflected sound waves form an echo, and I wanted to show waves bouncing around, so this was my take on it... except there's a trapped ghost!

This is my usual model, Bill, running back and forth across a field with one of my lights that I use for mountain biking at night. 30 second exposure with the camera about 6 feet up on a tripod (yay, I got a giant heavy Bogen Manfrotto that could probably hold me steady if I had a tripod mount.) Manual flash fired from several angles during the exposure. I tried to clean up some of the noise (yeah, the rebel isn't the best for this...) in post - I'm not entirely happy with the composition or the noise, its one of those shots where trying a few more times would get me something better looking, I'm sure.. but what the heck, right?

View On Black

I just realized that there was no exif:
Canon Rebel XT

24mm

30 sec
f/4.5
ISO 200

I did levels, curves and contrast and +.65 for the exposure in ACR with a bit of sharpening and a +5ish vibrance and saturation bumps...

Taken on: May 4, 2009

Tags:

pca63

echo

field

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