EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT @ South Beach Park in Santa Monica.
Glow Flow at Santa Monica’s South Beach, is a night time event, that turns the beach into a playground of light. Local artists spin various lighted objects to create one of a kind moments of kinetic art. A fantastic group of artists & dancers who work with LED Hula Hoops and other LED apparatus they can spin, toss, throw in the air, etc.
Very friendly and talented peeps.
Celebrating our love of the FLOW at Glow Flow Santa Monica!
How to Capture the Glow Flow Moment
If spin isn’t your thing, how about photography. Here are different ways to shoot Glow Flow Santa Monica.
GOLDEN HOUR / BLUE HOUR
You can shoot available light for images of the artists.
SLOW SHUTTER SPEED
As Glow Flow gets dark, you can use a slow shutter speed to let the moving LED devices draw amazing “spirograph” shapes with light against the night sky.
SLOW SYNC
You can combine both elements with slow sync or rear sync. A long shutter speed captures traces from LED Hula Hoops and then your on-or-off-camera flash lights the artist.
THE BEST FLASH?
I haven’t had the best results with built-in pop-up flash. I like using an external flash in the hot-shoe. At Glow Flow, We often say that having flash off the hot-shoe produces better lighting. For me, in this case, I think there’s so much going on, that hot-shoe mounted flash works well. You could bring a light stand and battery powered strobe which might look great but seems like a lot of gear.
TRIPOD?
If you use flash, it will freeze the artist, and the point-light-sources of the LEDs effectively freeze themselves, so you can shoot this handheld. However, you will get crisper images if you use a tripod.
BRACKET, BRACKET, BRACKET!
As you can imagine, dialing in your exposure can be a bit complicated! Plan to try a variety of different shutter speeds to see what works with the LEDs. And different flash intensities to balance the illumination on the artist with the LED traces.
South Beach Park
is located at 110 Pier Ave, on the border between Venice Beach and Santa Monica.
For additional information, visit the website @
facebook.com/veniceglowflow
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