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søndag den 25. august 2013

When simple photography light knowledge can be used for other things than photography...

Now this might sound silly... But i'm actually a little afraid of the dark... Mostly because i'm cursed/blessed with a pretty vivid imagination. Which with just one wrong thought in the wrong conditions can leave me sleepless for a loong time... What kind of thoughts then? Well... If i see something unidentifiable in the dark, my head starts spinning... And then it just comes: "What if it was a werewolf? Yees they murder people, and makes it look like an animal attack..." Now, this is where common sense kicks in: "They don't exist." But the "what if is still in there"... And from here on my head is just one battle zone...

So if i can, i need to turn on some light, or else it can do some serious messing with my head... And sometimes it happens that the actual thought: "Let's think about shipwrecks, or sharks..." (My 2 biggest fears)... Need light to kick out of that... 

Which is why when the bulb for my "night stand lamp" shorted like bulbs do... I had to come up with a new "light system", and all i had was a flashlight... And i created this much light with it:

How? Well a flashlight delivers a concentrated beam of light... So it needs to either be diffused, or "bounced"... So since my bedroom is solely white walls, and white is one of the best reflectors... Point flashlight at wall, and it bounces of to the other walls, and voila... You have light... Now of course bigger room means you're gonna need a stronger flashlight... But it works... The clear light is made by the flashlight, and the "orange/yellow" light is coming from the living room, but it's not enforcing the light in my bedroom that much, when lights in the living room is off, bedroom still looks pretty much like this... 

And that's how you avoid "monsters under the bed" when you forget to buy a new bulb...  

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