Tangled - Lightpainting on Hive

Morning world...It's Friday. Happy days.

I hope you are all well and that life is good.

Here's a shot from my second favourite woodland. Situated just off the Snake Pass in the Peak District and about half an hours drive from home. It's a dense pine forest which is pretty much dark during the day. At night it has a very moody demeanour and lends itself well to such shots.

Here I asked my friend Paulo to stand very still surrounded by the awesome trees which look to be closing in on him. I took a light writer with an orange gel and started snaking it from the trees and wrapping my mate in light as if the trees had a hold on him.

I then trailed all the lights out if the bottom of the frame as a nice leading line into the shot for the eye to follow.

Next I walked around the periphery of the frame cross lighting the trees and ground. Having a light source at right handles to the camera does a really great job of bringing out textures and adding some dynamic contrast to the scene. Always an important thing to think about when light painting.

I finished up with an acrylic rod and strobing torch which I span in a circle behind him to give his silhouette some background separation.

All shot during a single long exposure in complete darkness.

For more examples of innovative and original lightpainting including camera rotation photography, check these lightpainters: @fastchrisuk @dawnoner @mafufuma @oddballgraphics @martbarras @stefan.stepko @rod.evans.visual @yo-hoho @maxpateau These chaps are amongst the best there is!