All Tangled Up
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“It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Life has a way of
creating little humorous incidents,
which either make you want to
scream and shout,
rant and rave,
cry,
or laugh.
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I prefer to laugh if possible,
have a lark,
or a hoot.
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The idea I had for the fairy lights photo,
involved a bit of dressing up.
Usually when I do something like this,
I try to do it when I can be certain of not being disturbed,
and therefore not disturbing others with my costume.
However yesterday…
I thought I had timed things well,
but just as I was in full regalia,
all tangled up,
in fairy lights,
and fantasy,
someone decided to ring the doorbell.
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For a moment,
without thinking,
I hastened to answer the call…
luckily I was tethered by the lights,
which yanked me back to reality,
and the fact that I was not
suitable attired to meet and greet visitors…
or maybe it was the perfect get-up for such a thing!
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Steve answered the door,
so I’ll never know if I missed an opportunity,
or was saved from disaster.
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“In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Jennifer Day
Stephen Day
beautiful. love your creativity!
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Thank you very much!
This was fun to do, which always gets the creative juices going, and I really had no idea what I’d end up with 🙂
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It was a good result!
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how is this done.. Is this light painting? If so, please elaborate on it. I am just a newbie trying new stuff, hence would like to learn.
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I love trying new stuff too! I hadn’t considered light painting, that’s a great idea.
These are straightforward shots. I was feeling tired and lazy, so I did it in a hurry and kept things simple. I didn’t use any lighting other than the fairy lights which I had pinned to the dress. These particular fairy lights have several settings which make the lights flicker. I used the setting which made the lights go from dim to very bright and flicker at different speeds. They’re LED lights and are very bright. Then I processed the images in Photoshop, adjusting the colour, contrast, and added a couple of Topaz Labs filters to soften the edges and blur the background which was just a white wall.
Have fun, that’s the best ingredient in experimenting with photography and learning as you go 🙂
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