Pixel Darkroom Photography

I’m just doing my part for the Olympic Games. I’m doing this with a LED flash light, a Zippo lighter and a 70″ exposure. It takes a few tries and some imagination but it has great results. Here you have the olympic circles drawn by a flashlight and the torch drawn by my Zippo lighter for Day 124.

Strobist info: LED pocket flashlight, Zippo lighter and 70″ exposure at ISO 100 f/22. Triggered in bulb mode by Canon RC1 remote control. Blacks brought down in Lr.

If it happened today, I need to post it here. I will probably feel bad not to do it. I admit I could have planned it (better), because I actually did not plan it. I knew it was going to move around the city before it stops downtown, but didn’t really think much of it. I certainly did not think it was going to wake me up one morning. So here’s what happened: while still sleeping, this morning around 7:10 I hear loud noises outside. I get up, figure out what’s happening, I go downstairs, I put on a telephoto lens on my camera, take a peak out the window and realize the view is better from upstairs, run back up hoping I would not have missed it. Snap a few shots to tweak with the exposure and hope I would get something decent before the event goes by. I cranked up the sensor sensitivity for low light conditions and there it is. Eight frames later, you see this image. Since it happened today, I thought of journaling it here and there you have it: Day 118, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games torch going by.