Very Fairy Ordinary (A Photoshoot)

You know me, spontaneous, no forethought just "hey I think I'll do this!"

That pretty much sums up all my craft projects & photo shoots.

Aaaannny ways, I was looking through my Flickr photostream (link in the side bar somewhere) when I came across some night pictures I took a while back. And it got me thinking, how cool would it be to take some fantasy/ fairy inspired photos with the same technique. And thus started an hour and a half of making fair wings.

Thanks to my trusty assistant (Sam) I got a boat load of pictures. But as usual only three really turned out.

I think this one is my favourite.

I feel like the wings would have worked better if they were

A. Not made of cardboard and duct tape
B. if I had allowed the glue to dry before the shoot.

 

The Gift of Light

Night time photography

 

I love love love this picture, it took us several tries to get the wings the same shape.
-minor colour editing with Fotor.com-

 

I've experimented with painting with light before. It's an easy and entertaining technique. Just find a dark place, a slow shutter speed and something that emits light.

Now that I have a camera that has a limit of 30 seconds for a shutter speed instead of 8 I decided that I should give this trick another go. It was great fun! And I got some pretty interesting pictures. I decided that spamming my Flickr with pictures of the dark was not a good idea so I'm posting them here ;)

 This was not meant to be anything, just swirly and cool.

 A poor attempt at giving myself wings.

Structured designs are easier with two people. One person posing, the other person running the flashlight.

I really like this next one, I did everything myself. I posed, I ran the flashlight and I pressed the shutter. Also, I don't have photoshop, so all I did was adjust the the hue of the light a little bit.

 This picture is kinda creepy, but I'm really proud of it. :D