Playground Time #4 (Lightpainting)

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Hello Hive!

I've been spending thousands of hours in playgrounds in my life, playing soccer, basketball and now making lightpainting sessions. For me, a playground is the perfect place to unleash creativity and express yourself.

When I first saw this playground, I instantly thought it would be a great location to score a couple of three-pointers. At second sight, at night, I thought about a camera rotation job combined with lens cap trick and abstract light-calligraphy after a tripod swap : nothing more, nothing less^^

For that one, I worked with 2 tripods :

  • The big one for the kinetic phase, using the stainless steel structure, a powerful flashlight and a piece of black cardboard to cap/uncap the lens,

  • The small one for the calligraphic part, with a RGB LED stripe monted on an aluminum rod like a light saber, a small RGB LED stripe monted in a tiny wood box and a simple green LED.

I first worked with the steel rods to draw the pattern I imagined for the background of my picture then I capped the lens, moved my camera to the second tripod without ending the exposure and removed the cap to resume my long exposure, by drawing the abstract light-calligraphy (a bit off-center of the picture because I like crooked things in Art^^) and then I ended caption.

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326s - 16mm- f/7.1 - 100 ISO

Lightpainting created in real time, captured to the camera in one single photographic frame.
No layers /no Photoshop / no editing exept minor adjustments (lens correction profite, WB, contrast (+12)) and addition of my logo.

Gear :
Canon EOS 6D body
Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS II USM lens
Canon RC-E6 IR remote
Zomei carbon tripod
Benro A4770TN tripod
Jobu-Design Heavy Duty Gimbal Head Mk IV

Jan 2021


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