A new shop opened in cooper square the other day so I thought id check it out and I noticed they sold these lanterns and I have often seen them on wedding photographs and heard people talking about them but ive never set one of myself and always thought they where interesting... so i brought one after hearing the 'fleeting moment' brief.
My immediate thought was to set the lantern over water so that I could get a nice reflection of the water for an interesting effect. But as soon as the lantern was lit away it went, within 5seconds it was so high to photograph therefore I only got one decent one....
Its defiantly not my favourite image but I had no idea how lighting and photographing the lantern would turn out... it was one of them things you have to do to find out what its like without knowing the outcome. At least I can say ive tried it now!
I work 4 jobs aswell at uni so finding the time to set it off was hard due to it getting dark around half past 4 in the evening! I originally thought of Albert Village lake for the place to set it off however it was too dark near the water and there was no background, just black so I thought the image would be to boring as if I just took the photograph of the lantern and but it on a black background... a boring image.
Soooo I needed a place with some sort of lighting in the foreground so I decided to set it of near Burton bridge with some pubs and houses in the background...
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