Picture Gallery Six AS DARKNESS FALLS Dave Moon L.R.P.S. My latest sequence "As Darkness Falls" was made for the Waves Theme day "The Spirit of the Place". It is a follow up to last year's poetry day, for which I made the sequence "Autumn", set to a poem by John Betjeman. The photography was mainly taken at Westonbirt Arboretum. This new A.V. starts with the ending of "Autumn" and then takes the viewer into the Christmas illuminations also at Westonbirt. The music chosen was Pulstar by Vangelis. It is 4mins 19secs long and has a slow even tempo for the first 42secs, which gave me the opportunity to start the sequence with some long, slow dissolves. I used some of Autumn's end images, where the light starts to fall in the arboretum. With a sudden change in the music's tempo I was able to bring in the titles to the sound of the beat. This theme was then followed throughout the sequence, resulting in the use of 160 images in total. Because of the low lighting, all images were taken on a tripod, with manual exposure and focusing. This resulted in many images capturing the changes in the illuminations. So when projected these images then replicated the different lighting effects on the trees. A few manipulated images were then used to join some of the sections together.   PICTURE 6-1   PICTURE 6-2   PICTURE 6-3 PICTURE 6-4   PICTURE 6-5   PICTURE 6-6 PICTURE 6-7   PICTURE 6-8   PICTURE 6-9