Landscape Photography

Patrick Marson Ong Photography

Oil and Water don't mix

In the Womb

In the Womb

These images had haunted me for five decades and I had never imagined the possibilities to replicate them to such precise likeness. Several times in the past, I had tried to verbally describe the inside of the womb as I remember it to be, "yes!, you heard me right," I remember my time in the womb.

RESEARCH

The usual initial start to a research is YouTube How to Tutorials and that is where I went to learn how to make and photograph floating bubbles in colorful liquids. I had imagined the possibilities of replicating what had haunted me for all of my life. I watched different tutorials of photographers and their various approaches to archiving these images.

Oil on Water Tutorial

FORM

My set up was pretty much as depicted in the tutorial, where I had used my flash gun attached to a wireless transceiver and receiver. I had found an old magnifying glass I had lying around which surprisingly enough had a circumference exactly that of my 50 mm Prime lens. I then cut an old bicycle inner tube and used it to bind the glass to the lens to form my macro lens. 

Inside the womb

SELF DIRECTED

With the camera mounted on the tripod, I manually adjusted the focus by adjusting the tripod and locked the camera in position when in focus. The orange color was achieved by placing an orange cloth under the dish.

Camera Setting;

ISO 100

Av F/8.0

Tv 1/100

Processed with Photoshop;

Raised the right end of levels to 215

The Womb

CONTENT
Learning Oil on Water photography technique.
Placing of lights
Positioning of reflected colors
Macro photography
Refresher and practice

Split the womb

CONTEXT
A unique experience that had haunted me for my entire life had inspired this photo shoot. When researching the technique, I was confronted with the possibilities that it was possible to create my haunting images. This is what I saw when I was in the womb.

Light Painting

RESEARCH

Came across this image from Evan of Photoextremist.com when researching Light Painting Photography on YouTube Orbs - Light Painting Photography Tutorial. The photo stood out as being unique, well composed, placements of the variety of colours and of course the multi-colored orb in mid-ground. I find the tutorial easy and clear to follow and motivational which has prompted me to try and replicate this photo.

FORM
Drove out to Henderson rather than Queen Street store of Surplustronics.co.nz in Auckland to look at buying a cylinder magnifying glass for a setup I'm putting together for macro photography but came across these Outdoor String Lights - with AutoTimer - Blue which was on my list to buy. I brought it home

I installed the supplied 3 x AA batteries and went through the 8 pre-programmed sequences and everything seems fine. I wound the 8-meter wire into a compact state so that all the 80 LED lights were all concentrated together using electrical tape to help bind the lights tightly together. A meter or so of wire was left out and a strong line was attached to the compacted lights which ran along the meter or so wire left out for this purpose. The strong line is taped along the wire to take up the wire tension up to where the switch box is. This will form the swing line but the length is set to suit. A dry test run went smoothly, swinging the line and getting used to the weight and learning to swing on the spot.

 

I had thought that keeping the 6 lights on the swing wire was a good idea but they formed circular streaks around the orb. NA: The yellow line is the swing line that takes up the slack of the wire and I have rubber bands keeping the battery and timer pack together as the screws weren't doing the job properly. Everything is tightly bound together with orange electrical tape.
My Tripod was used to stabilise the long exposure to eliminate motion blur along with my 24mm wide angle Tamron lens on my Canon 60D DSLR.
SETTING;
Manual
Tv; 30s
Av; f4
ISO; 100

SELF-DIRECTED

My Grandson came out to the front of the house to help me with my project and I let him have a go at swinging the fairy lights. We had several practices at creating light orbs which turned out to be fun and sometimes hilarious. On reviewing the finished product, I found several factors that could help with improving with my next light orb project but on a whole with minimum effort, it turned out well.

1. The 6 light on the swing wire will definitely need to be taped away as it formed unwelcomed streaks.

2. The ambient light from the street lamps reflected off the house hindered on the isolated atmosphere I was seeking.

3. Need to add coloured gels over some of the bound fairy light to create different coloured light in one orb.

4. I will try the BULB Mode to give me long shutter opening to action more swings.

5. I will try experimenting with the aperture setting to see if I can get a sharper light streak.

6. Will need to scout for better-isolated location and make the effort to compose my photo and add some coloured gel lights to the surroundings and background.
7. Will make more fairy light swing line but will make the smaller about half the size of the last project with white lights and several coloured gels.
8. Will experiment with and fabricate other light brushes and orb making wheel gadgets.

CONTENT
Learning night photography
Learning long exposure
Learning light orb photography
Learning how to make led fairy light swing line.

CONTEXT
Practising and Learning Long Exposure, Light Orb, Light Painting Photography.
In preparation for a future photo shoot, I am planning overseas.

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