Light Painting Under The Bridge

On 18 November 2019, the BAB 33 (Federal Motorway 33) was finally completed. This relieved the traffic on the B68 through Halle (Westphalia) and Steinhagen considerably.

Old maps from 1937 already show plans for an motorway between Osnabrück and Bielefeld with a continuation to today's A44 (Dortmund-Kassel). The motorway was then planned in the 1960s. 59 years later it was already completed. A masterstroke by German authorities! Well, actually, this is not really about the construction, but about one of the bridges, about 2 kilometres from our house. I had tried a light painting there some time ago, but had not yet fully realised my idea. Last night I went there again with my wife Geane to get the final picture on the camera chip. In the meantime, new ideas have already developed. I think I will go to this place more often.

The two pictures above are test shots I took last year in September. For the first picture, the camera was rotated in 120° steps. The second picture was taken by rotating the camera in 45° steps.
In the following picture my wife Geane posed for me. Here, too, the camera was rotated in 120° steps. In the last step, not the bridge, but the model was staged from behind with fog and a kick light. Geane is holding a laser in his hand, which I made visible with the help of a smoke cartridge. The picture was also taken in September 2022.

The next picture was the last of yesterday's light painting evening, which we started at 21:00 and was already over by 23:00. Again, the camera was rotated in 120° increments.
With the wind coming up, it was difficult to get the smoke into the scene. I had to position a smoke cartridge quite far away from the model and then quickly stand behind the model and try to catch the smoke with the torch.

DIY-Rotation-Tool

Since I had forgotten the remote control for it at home, Geane drove it manually. Save electricity! An "ant lamp" (RGB CRITTER by ANTS ON A MELON, INC.) with an oval blade was attached to the rotation tool.

To illuminate the bridge and the background behind the model I used an EMISAR D18 with different colour filters.

I used a few smoke cartridges for the background. I brought the model into the picture with a DIY scanner. At this point I would like to thank @lichtkunstfoto again for the housing. I finally finished the electronics last week.

At this point I would like to thank my dear wife Geane again for her support and patience. Without her, the pictures would not have been taken.

Did you like this article? Then stay tuned! Next Sunday we'll be talking about light painting again.