Dark nights and coloured lights

Coloured Elastic Bands

Thursday 1st October 2015

Looked at my calendar today and saw that the 'Fair' season was upon us. Locally, that means; Scarborough Fair this week, Hull Fair next week, followed by Bridlington Fair. It is a great time to experiment photographing the lights and motion of the rides against dark skies. As I was thinking about this, I was staring at a bag of elastic bands and it set me thinking, I would create my own fairground lights. I took out some coloured elastic bands and photographed them with flash from the left hand side, to create a slight shadow. I then processed it in Photoshop and selected a filter to bring out the coloured edges of the bands. Now I was looking at something that reminded me of the neon lights of the Fairgrounds. Perhaps a real image next week?