Since the entire Covid19 Lockdown lifestyle I started looking at the apartment in a different way. These days I keep looking at things as potential photo exercise subjects. So I started Eyeing this foam roller and was wondering what that would look like in a camera rotation. So that one night it was time to stage it with some fiber optic light painting with a twist.

What you see is a featured Camera Rotation Light Painting is a single 365-second exposure time photograph. The camera was always set to ISO 100 and the Lens to F20.

In order to see something of the graffiti on the walls in the foreground, I lit it up on each side of the rotation. It required twelve steps for the complete rotation.

At first, as always I had a quick light scan of 13 seconds to look at the foam roller on the rubber ball. Looked pretty cool with the texture and black shadows.

Since I was going for lots of contrast I went for F20 and stronger light. Once I got that I could move for the camera rotation. This time I was hoping to melt a few of them into each other so I went for twelve steps.

Once I know how the Light scene works I did the rotation but no color.

It took me like two or three attempts to get the proper rotation with some cool black fiber optic effect to get this result. Pretty satisfying to be honest. 😎

Here is one of the test shots that meant more to do it again. If you have a closer look you see that's my hand showing up. Of course, that was not intended. To avoid that I simply had to rotate my hand so it would not be lit from that side towards the camera.

Then it was easy to add color and my cover shot was done, which you can see at the very beginning.

Camera Rotation what?

As I described also in my last post about Camera Rotation it is just what you think. During the exposure, the camera is being turned in a few angles and while doing so I also light up the scene. Everything together and in one exposure without any trickery.

Wanna see what you can do with this technique? If you are interested in this technique, not too long ago I wrote up an article on the topic. It has been published on my website and here on Hive as a blog post.