MATRIX Lightpainting

It hit me at the vernissage last weekend in our town hall. CORONA! That means at least five days of quarantine. What drama! I had planned a whole week of light painting with friends in Berlin. Nothing will come of it now. The only alternative left now is light painting alone at home. 😔

So I made a virtue out of necessity and experimented a bit in my office. Since a model was also out of the question due to the quarantine, a plastic head (Mr. Smith) had to be the model for me. At least he was very patient with me and kept nice and still. 😉

I had the idea to create an android that is in the MATRIX. Parts of the electronics built into the Android should become visible.
This required some preparation.

First, a BMP file for the MATRIX theme had to be created for the background and loaded into the pixel stick.
Then a circuit board was attached to a tripod using a clamp. For this part of the shot I used a Canon EF16-35mm ƒ4L macro lens.
I exposed the circuit board with a Convoy S2+ (blue LED) covered from the front with a black tape. I drilled a hole in the tape. So I created a fine beam of light that I used to trace the parts of the board I wanted in the picture.
Then I put the tripod with the board to the side, changed the lens and exposed "Mr. Smith" approx. 45° from behind with a Convoy S2+ (LED red).
Finally, I took the pixel stick and rotated the MATRIX image 360° to create the tube effect.

Ultimately, I wasn't satisfied with the result and rejected the idea.