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I've decided to experiment with glow sticks as a source of lighting. My original plan was to use them as a lighting source in my music video. Although I might have overestimated how much light they actually give off. For the camera's sensor pick them up, the iso needs to be incredibly high (resulting a grainy image the higher you go), or the shutter speed needs to higher (meaning that the length of time the before the image is captured is much greater, creating more motion). For filming a shutter speed of 1/50 is advised (to go along with the frame rate of 24fps), so using glow sticks isn't really ideal. But on the flip side they can still be used for the ancilllary tasks (the digipack or the website). Setting the shutter to around 5-15 seconds I was able to create some motion with the light. Below are the test images, the first one is a CD test cover:


Update:

Here's another CD cover idea. I think I'm going to use these as part of my band's previous singles and EPs on the website. 




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