autofantasia's photos with the keyword: night

For this week's Sunday Challenge , which had the theme of hands . After a few weeks of nearly having the door slam shut on me I thought I'd try and sneak in first this time around. Given how dark the actual shot it is, you might want to view large on black for best effect ... that's if you dare! Oh,and yes, in case you're wondering ... it is a real hand!

An early attempt at producing an image for this week's Sunday Challenge , which has the theme of favourite song or songs . It was going to be matched with "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedance Clearwater Revival. In the end though I realised I'd made a school boy error with this collage as I'd failed to realise the light was coming from the wrong direction for the it to be emanating from my 'bad moon'. So I produced another image entitled Don't Go Around Tonight ... to be my main entry and to go with the CCR hit. However, despite its flawed lighting I still kind of like this one so I decided to upload it anyway, but this time paired up with another rock classic, which I felt was equally appropriate. "Bad to the Bone" is a song by George Thorogood & The Destroyers, which was first released in 1982 on the album of the same name. I first heard it when I went to see John Carpenter's "Christine" at the cinema, which itself was based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King. However, you might have heard it playing during the bar scene in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" when the Terminator is first shown in his full leather outfit. To be honest it has been used in dozens of movie scenes and television shows over the years, but despite that I never tire of hearing it and I don't think I ever will. As with Don't Go Around Tonight ... my image is a composite of sorts. The building is actually from a shot I took myself in Harrogate during daylight, but which I 'tweaked' in an attempt to create the illusion that it was shot at night. As for my very own 'bad moon', the base image was obtained as a download from the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio and you'll find a copy of this in the Notes. You can find out more about this organisation and check out further images by following the link below: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov The skull element was based around work produced by Marc Gosselin on DeviantArt and again you'll find a copy of the original unaltered image in the Notes. You can see more of Marc's work by following the link below: marcgosselin.deviantart.com Thanks for the starry night sky must go a Wiki user called chensiyuan who took this shot, which is entitled "Vermont_night_sky_stargazing". You can find more of their images by following the link below: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chensiyuan You can listen to "Bad To The Bone" via the MP3 I've inserted above or, if you want to see the video to the song then follow the link below: youtu.be/_7VsoxT_FUY

As regular visitors to my photostream will know, I struggled greatly with last week's Sunday Challenge , which had the theme of high key . Thankfully, I found this week's challenge of low key much less stressful. And whereas last week I introduced you all to Gerald The Dinosaur, this week it's the turn of Harry The Owl who is one of three metal owls that make up an ornamental sculpture to be found in our back garden. He's the furthest to the right of the trio - hence him being called Harry ... the other two then are, as you may have guessed, called Tom and Dick. I took the shot outside after 10.00pm last night once it had got dark - heaven knows what the neighbours would have thought if they saw me. I had the camera on a tripod and for a change worked with manual settings throughout ... even the focus! As for the key light that was a small pocket torch that I had positioned to my right hand side behind a small board of MDF so as to stop any light spilling onto the foliage behind where I'd positioned Harry. Best of all as far as I'm concerned is that I've posted this pretty much as it came out of the camera. The only 'work' done on it was a slight crop and I 'dodged' the white in his eyes just a smidgen as I felt they were a little flat. So, there you go, not quite SOOC, but pretty damned close!