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[brucemir]

Here are some pics using up to seven lasers, diffraction gratings and mirrors to create a lot of beams. Eventually I used my plasma globe (turned off) and even a few with the Mexican mask I have. The ones with the mask I was trying to get a silhouette effect with mixed results. Enjoy

**my favorite pics from this post have been added to my "Best of" thread 4/1/14**

 

[hwang21]

Cool! :beer:

 

[Flaminpyro]

Looks good, you really should have energized the globe though

 

[busman2]

Yup! Another good one there Bruce, great photography too! What are the little lenses that split the beams? Are they diffraction gratings?

Cheers.

 

[brucemir]

Hwang- Thanks!

Flamingpro - I did took many shots with the globe on. I will add a few of them tomorrow.

Busman2 - Yes, the glassware you see are fan diffraction gratings. 6 of them are transmission gratings which allow the beam to go thru the glass and make a fan pattern. The one in the center of some of the shots are reflection gratings where you shine a beam into it and it reflects the fan pattern, instead of the light passing thru it. As you can also see, many of my gratings are in small pieces as over the past 18 months many have fallen in the dark and broke into a few pieces each. The good thing is they still work perfectly in small pieces.

 

[brucemir]

For Flamingpro -here a few shots with the globe turned on. They are the same shots as above but with it turned on. I always try to photograph all the options available before I move my camera, lasers, or all of the other stuff around. I think on some shots the photo may look nicer with it on, but I personally like to shoot it when it is off for all of the reflections of the thin clear glass.

 

[gismo]

Another visually stunning concert of the laser beam indoors universe in brucemir style. The mask and globe match very well together, also some fine beam splitting show in this session. I'd also prefer to leave the globe off for a better transition effect, but it's always a taste of personal preference, I guess. In some of the shots I can see the beams were quite close the camera sensor, sometimes I do that as well, but with a single beam mostly preferably. An acute angle depicts the beam thicker in appearance, which is quite cool as well:beer:.

Superb weekend show:gj:

 

[Smeerworst]

I can only inmation how nice this must look in real person..

So many beams I love it!

 

[brucemir]

Gismo, thanks! Yes , on a few of the shots I had about 15" between the two gets of beams. I had to take extra caution while placing my camera/tripod, and also putting the screen at a 90 degree angle to view it , and stand off to the side to compose those shots.

Smeerworst, also thanks! One thing is have never really put in my posts is how the set ups I do look in person. They really do look incredible. The beauty of pure color(s), straight lines, geometric patterns, and the use of all of the different optics keeps photographing all of this stuff original ever weekend. I remember your post about when you photographed your present avatar last year saying you had to see it in person to fully appeciate it. I ca relate to that.