I got an invitation to visit the light festival in the city of Almere, called Alluminouse!
It's e relative new festival and Almere is also one of the newest city's in the Netherlands!
That is because they build the entire city on the bottom of the sea! After the reclamation of the former Zuiderzee, new land was created! And from the year 1975 they start building the city of Almere! But I will make a post about that some other time!
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I love to photograph events like this, even when the circumstances are very difficult, then I like it a little more! Photographing light installations in the dark is pretty tricky but when the weather doesn't cooperate, it's even harder! I do love a challenge like that! I really wanted to capture the weather to!
The weather predictions of last Friday were terrible! It was raining all day long! But they predicted dry weather around 21:00 hours, so the possibility to take pictures was there!
Screenshot of the Dutch weather app Buienradar, You even cant see the Netherlands on the map! !
Alluminouse
The event was organised along the banks of the lake "het weerwater" in Almere! It's an 6 km long route and it will take about two hours of walking to see the whole route! but if you want to photograph everything, it will take longer!
The route was indicated by blue lights and blue illuminated triangles! Which had to represent the letter A for Almere. The route was easy to follow!
In some locations the lights were up in light posts but others were up in the trees! And that was awesome! And specially during the rain like in this picture!
I love this picture so much! This was exactly what I wanted to shoot that evening!
My model here is also a very good photographer! Nappyc! Go look at here Instagram account here Used a ISO of 20000 F5.0 and 1/40 of a second shutter speed! I love how the rain is frozen here!
Many trees on the route were nicely illuminated but still very difficult to photograph!
This picture the ISO was 64000 with F5,6 and shutter speed of 1/13! it looks terrible with all the noise but this particular location was also very dark! I didn't take a tripod with me because of the weather! I also was carrying an umbrella!
This location, as you can see, the light was a bit better! 'just'an ISO of 20000 F4,0 and a shutter speed of 1/6th of a second!
And here we were playing around one of those triangles!
My lens was wet from the rain! It was to dark to notice that during the shoot! The rainspost do ad something in these pictures! ISO 20000 F7,1 and a shutter speed of 1/200! Nice settings to frees his jump in the first picture!
It was hard to capture the city in the background! I do am glad it's a bit visible!
Puddels and reflections do very good in here!
One more art piece in this post, fire on the beach! I am glade that one person was standing there! Now you can really see the size of the art piece! Also like the building n this picture very much! Good architecture! ISO 100001/13 second at F4
I shot these pictures with my new camera, the Canon EOS R6 mark II and the 14-35 F4! I wanted to test the ISO today and boy what a banger it is! ISO 20K and lightroom is able to clear the noise pretty good!
This trip was organised by the city of Almere and the Instagram acount of city marketing Almere visit Almere.
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