All joking aside, I am always grateful to have friends who are willing to set aside time for me to work with them and help me with my get everything done for school. My best friend, Seth, let me set up camp at his barn in the middle of the night to work on a light painting assignment for my small format class. Since he was getting off from work, he met me in Winston to buy a remote for my camera, which eventually worked really well for me.
While we were waiting for nightfall at his house, he insisted we watch Zombeavers, which was about how you'd expect based on the title alone. Two hours and a box of fruit roll ups later, we headed down to the barn. I originally set up on the other side of the barn, where I had flare from the moon and weird reflections from the horse trailer, Harry Trotter.
I moved to the other side of the barn and was immediately inspired by the three stall windows. I shot this on June 11th, which was the day of the Belmont Stakes. Most of what I do is a direct result of my sense of humor, and this project was no exception. I had the right gels with me to light the stalls like a traffic light. I thought it would be a funny tribute to horse racing without being over the top. The hardest part of setting up was trying to create a reasonable horizon line. Nothing in the entire area is flat, and I was set up at the bottom of the wonky hill where the barn was perched. I ended up moving in and shooting at 30mm so that the distortion would make everything more cohesive. I also lit the rest of the barn to appear inviting and to show the hay bales, which ended up balancing the orange light coming from behind the tree line. I spent most of my time running around with a headlamp looking for filters or caps that I'd dropped while I was running around like a hooligan.
I enjoyed working on this more than I thought I would, and I'd definitely do it again (but next time with more pockets).
f/11 @ 457s (about 7.5 minutes) ISO200
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