Final project

Final Images - Glowsticks are awesome

My initial project proved to be far too complicating with not only set-up but an environment that was mostly out of my control, but I stayed true to my glowsticks vision. Using the glowsticks I had and knowing that waving them around in a dark environment with a 10-30 second exposure would result in colorful streaks I went ahead and devised a plan. This plan would include a speedlight which would freeze the subject in the blackened environment that I and the model were working in.  The process was to press the shutter, the speedlight would flash, I would then enter the scene, and trace the model or move glowsticks around the model in a dark environment before the shutter closed, usually around 25 seconds on average.  Below are the resulting images.

AURA - f/13  20 s  ISO 800   -.67

FIRE  f/14  25 s  ISO 1000  -.33

CURIOSITY f/14  20 s  ISO 1000  -.67

Some of the struggles I ran into were if I underexposed the model the glowsticks were most vibrant.  If the scene was overexposed or at least closer to a correct exposure, I could barely see the glowsticks.  Slighting underexposing kept the exposure time above 20 seconds which allowed me to work longer in the frame.  Then in post, I was able to adjust the the exposure of the subject.