Spinning Light Discs

 

These images are all thanks to my phone. I came across an app which enables you to set you're screen flashing at different rates and colours. By adjusting the colour and flash rate settings I was able to get some interesting pics in different colour themes and even slightly different shapes.

 

Anyone can make these. You will need: a Symbian based mobile phone, or any other flashing object, a record player and a camera with long exposure capabilities. 

Simply setup you're equipment in a dark room, put the phone on the turntable and set the record player going. Use long exposure to capture awesome spinning light discs!

 

This one on the left was made by putting the camera on the record player and standing the phone up-right across the room.

The one on the right used the same method as above but with very long exposure, fast colour change speed and high flash rate.

Have a go!

The Camera

Let me introduce the Nikon D3100...


Well I'm sure most of you all ready know about this one. I didn't have a lot of money to spend and even though I was looking to buy second-hand, my money wasn't going to buy much. I wanted a Nikon or a Canon but the Nikon came along first. It basically fell into my lap through a friend of a friend of a friend. It was a good price and It was in mint condition with its box and all accessories.

This is my first DSLR and I'm rather pleased with it. Most of the time I shoot in super fine Jpeg and the 4gb memory card, I got thrown in, is perfectly adequate for my needs. Battery life could be a bit better but Its certainly not a weakness. Only thing I'm not too impressed with is the auto focus in dark situations but switching to manual focus is quick and easy, plus the ability to zoom in on the live-view mode is also handy for manual focusing.

The video recording is a little bit of a let down as I can only seem to record 10 minute clips but that's not a massive problem. I haven't played with the video settings a great deal but I cant seem to enable continuous auto-focus in video mode?

I'm using a fairly high-end NEC monitor and there is little to no difference between raw and jpeg modes. I currently tweak none of my images so there is no need for me to shoot in raw. With jpeg I can hold more images and increase battery life.

I would happily recommend the Nikon but I can feel myself wanting to upgrade already. Maybe some new lenses will prove to be a good upgrade? Any advice on what to get would be much appreciated.

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Flickr

This is predominantly a photo-blog right?

Yes it is and BrokenDrift is also on Flickr. The Flickr page will be updated most often but the BrokenDrift Blog will have more photos with greater detail about where I took them and how.

If you have arrived at this Blog through Flickr I thank you for taking such an interest in the BrokenDrift Project. If not, then get over to Flickr and checkout all the pics!

Photos on Flickr will generally be uploaded in sets of three. If I have a lot from one location I will upload more but always in groups of three.

Please show you're support on Flickr, all you're favs and comments wont go unnoticed. If you look at my page, Ill look at yours. I always return the favor, for what goes around comes around.

Lastly, you will notice I don't watermark any of my photos. I want you to see the image as I took it but please refrain from copying images and claiming them as you're own.

Add me on Flickr so I no longer stand alone.

We Have Broken Drift

Hello and welcome to BrokenDrift.

There are a few things I would like to share with you that will hopefully give you an incite as to who I am and why I do what I do.

First off I'm of the opinion that "our world" has become so obsessed with wealth and material status  that I wish to have no part of it. I have no job, no beliefs, no aspirations of grandeur, I only wish that more felt the same.

We're conditioned to "get a job, get a girl, get a life" but surely there is more to life than this?

We stand by as corporations destroy our forests, pollute the air and burn up the worlds resources. Essentially you and I are powerless to stop this but its likely to effect us the most. For with money comes power and the rich elite will always be safe while the rest of us struggle to make ends meat.

Currently people all over the world are suffering from war, famine, disease and poverty. Weather it be ideological differences, racial discrimination or the struggle of power structures. It's all meaningless and a total waste of time, resources and human energy.

We should be working together to make the planet as self sustaining as possible, there needs to be food, medicine and education for everybody on the planet. We need the greatest minds humanity has to offer, working towards the good of mankind and our environment.

I've come to the conclusion that the only thing that provides me with genuine satisfaction is "creation". Weather it be a picture, a song, or just doing a favor for someone. This is why I have started the BrokenDrift concept, I want to share my ideas and creations with the world.

You're God is within you - You are everything - Everything is one.