Psychedelic CD

ISO: 200 Aperture: 13 Shutter Speed: 30 sec Lens: 24-105mm

ISO: 200 Aperture: 22 Shutter Speed: 30 sec Lens: 24-105mm

These were some pictures that I took the other night when I had nothing to do. I felt like taking a picture but had no flash. Therefore, I decided just to paint with light. I was looking online for some inspiration and came across something similar to this, but decided to make it a little more of my own. In order to get the water droplets on the CD in the lines that I wanted them, I went and got one of those booger syringe things that you use on a baby and filled it up with water. With this, I was able to drop the desired amount of water on the desired place on the CD. I ended up lighting these two pictures a couple of different ways. In the first picture I took a mini mag light and squiggled around the flash directly above the CD. This created a direct reflection onto the CD and that is why it has a white arch coming from the bottom right corner. I found it to be a little distracting, so I cropped the picture in to where if you look a little closer you can see the detail of the flash light in the water droplets. I like the darkness on one side of the water drops and light on the other side. I like the contrast in this. I like the second picture because of all of the colors going on. IT'S SOOOO PRETTY!!! In order to get all the colors and the rim lights around the water droplets I took the flash light and put it on the level of the CD and slowly moved it around the perimeter of the CD. It took me a couple of tries to get that one right because I would always accidentally flash the flashlight directly into the lens of the camera. Overall, I liked taking these pictures because it has been my first chance in a while to just take pictures for expression and fun. I'm hoping that since all of the contests are over with that I will have more time and opportunities to take pictures like these.