Here's my latest art / pool project. I tried to get the path of the ball to trace out numbers. One shot, one ball, one picture. Let me know what you think!
Check out all the numbers!
Check out all the numbers!
Numbers - A Photography Experiment
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All of them were 4 second exposures. I was being lazy and didn't want to mess with the camera between shots since it was propped up pretty high. And I had to balance the shutter speed with how hard I had to shoot and the time it took for the ball to make the pattern.
That's neat!
How did you shoot the number 4? Did you play it off both side pocket points?
How did you shoot the number 4? Did you play it off both side pocket points?
I'm guessing play off the point with right english so it turns up table off the other rail.
That's pretty cool, love it!
Cool!
You may already know this, but another neat thing to do is to take very long exposures to make the moving ball not appear at all in the final image. You need to stop way down and use available light to do this. I've seen unretouched photos of bridges taken at night that look like there was no traffic occurring when in fact many cars had passed but weren't in the frame long enough relative to the total exposure time to even register.
Really neat trick for a shot of a bridge, but who would want a photo of an empty pool table? :wink:
Yeah, that's it. It actually took me a while to come up with this pattern. I had tried a couple other patterns, but couldn't capture the whole thing or the 4 ended up being pretty small. This one ends up being slightly abstract since the right 'leg' doesn't go up all the way, but with the angle, it's not too bad so I settled for it.
Pretty cool Bud. So, can you do a 15, maybe a 32.
That is cool. I can do this one.
My table's slanted, so I actually had to masse that one
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