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By Bulb Light

An Exercise in light....
By Bulb Light #1, Shanghai 2005
By Bulb Light #1, Shanghai 2005		 By Bulb Light #2, Shanghai 2005
By Bulb Light #2, Shanghai 2005		 By Bulb Light #3, Shanghai 2005
By Bulb Light #3, Shanghai 2005		 By Bulb Light #4, Shanghai 2005
By Bulb Light #4, Shanghai 2005		 By Bulb Light #5, Shanghai 2005
By Bulb Light #5, Shanghai 2005
By Bulb Light #6, Shanghai 2006
By Bulb Light #6, Shanghai 2006		 By Bulb Light #7, Shanghai 2006
By Bulb Light #7, Shanghai 2006		 By Bulb Light #8, Shanghai 2006
By Bulb Light #8, Shanghai 2006		 By Bulb Light #9, Shanghai 2006
By Bulb Light #9, Shanghai 2006

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jaac30-Mar-2006 12:23
Excellent series of shots, hope there is more to come :-)
Guest 12-Mar-2006 11:36
Great metaphorical idea.
~ l'Autre
AL13-Feb-2006 01:14
Amazing series with good play of light. Great attempt in capturing the "dark" side of life, yet with a single bulb giving the light of hope... Well seen, well composed - Voted!
KimKong12-Feb-2006 23:27
This gallery is about bulb light, but all I can see is darkness...
Splendid Kal, you've caught the right light!
Guest 12-Feb-2006 19:32
Kal, I like very much your Buld fiction, wich is a great reality story in a way of light that I just love.
Chris Sofopoulos12-Feb-2006 18:15
Great play of light and shadow Kal!
Guest 12-Feb-2006 15:18
Fantastic series so far, Kal. Keep posting. V.
Ray Rebortira19-Jan-2006 05:13
It is like the old saying, you only need to strike a match to conquer the darkness. In the case of these images, you only need one light bulb to make human dignity shine brightly. Bravo!!!
Kal Khogali06-Jan-2006 03:37
Thanks Jen, I hope there is expression here...high key light (in this case only one!!) is meant to create a harsh mood, and maybe in a sense the harshness of life here is brought out by it. There are more images to come....the single light bulb is a tool of survival here...it takes some people out of the darkness and let's them see in more than one sense. K
Jennifer Zhou06-Jan-2006 03:11
I love this gallery Kal! The pictures work better as a group..And it is much more than just an excrcise of light. I feel the silent strugglings here.. They have only the small bulb light to lighten them up a bit in the darkness. This is the reality of their lives..I feel sad..
Guest 04-Jan-2006 04:41
Great series. I like #2 best, I think. And thanks for the processing notes. I've heard a lot of good things about Noise Ninja. I'll check it out. Ironic thing is that I generally like the effect of noise with "street photography" such as this.
Kal Khogali03-Jan-2006 17:38
Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8 in tis case. I use ISO 3200 (sometimes 1600 if the light allows). Meter for the whole scene (Evaluative metering) then denoise in Photoshop using the Noise Ninja plug-in, this plug-in allows me to remove noise, but then allows me to put back the amount of noise I want in..so you don't lose detail. As a general note, I know that Phil recommends metering for the highlight, but with such an extreme of light and shadow, I have invariably ended up with excessive noise when recovering the shadow detail doing it that way. Oh...and I shoot Raw, which allows much more latitude for shadow recovery in this type of image...hope that helps. K (PS a steady hand also helps ;-))
Guest 03-Jan-2006 12:40
The lack of noise is amazing! Would you reveal what lens you use?
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