Woodland play
Yesterday we went to Dunston Common to blow away the cobwebs and get the kids up and about. It’s a super little woodland with several carved wooden ’sound sculptures’ – big carvings which you can bash with the attached stick to get different sounds, there’s even an outdoor xylophone!
Needless to say I went equipped with camera and flash gear and I convinced Nicky to be my “voice activated lightstand” (VAL) toting a flash and brolly setup mounted on a monopod – We played around with power settings and got used to where the light needed to be then I dialled the ambient light up and down with the shutter speed. It’s a really good way to create fluid, well-lit pictures on the run and we got a lot of lovely images for Nicky to scrap.
Here are a few:
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