Playing with the magnetic beach sand.
Ok here is something different. Using my Macro lens again for Light Painting.
A few years back we visited some friends in California. One of my personal highlights occurred pretty much on the last day of the trip. With some friends, we ended up on the beach of Pacifica, just south of San Fransisco. Together with my friend Aza, I collected some fero magnetic sand from the beach where he used to grow up. For me, that's so magical and felt again like a little kid. Well, today a few things came together, and here are some light painting experiments that I never got to do untl now. Finally we used the sand for something.
Vor ein paar Jahren besuchten wir Freunde in Kalifornien. Mein persönliches Highlights ereignete sich am letzten Tag der Reise. Mit ein paar Freunden landeten wir am Strand von Pacifica, südlich von San Francisco. Unser Freund Aza zeigte mir den feromagnetischen Sand, an dem er aufgewachsen ist. Ich fand das so cool und wir fingen an den Sand zu filtern und ich fühlte mich wieder wie ein kleines Kind. Nun, heute ist ein paar Dinge zusammengekommen, und hier sind einige Lichtmalerei-Experimente die es nun endlich gibt.
I found this mirror glass sitting right in front of me in a room I was staying in for a week doing home office from abroad. Every night I thought I gonna do something with it. The sand came to mind and I got out the gear and started playing. Here I share some results of it. Also testing the Video function.
Ich fand diesen Spiegel direkt in meinem Zimmer, in dem ich eine Woche lang wohnte (bisschen Homeoffice). Jeden Abend dachte ich, ich könnte etwas damit machen. Der Sand kam mir in den Sinn und ich holte die Ausrüstung heraus und begann zu spielen. Hier teile ich einige Ergebnisse davon.
Set Up
The aim was to make the particles stand up and create interesting shapes and textures. For that, the sand was on the top of the glass and then I would move the magnets underneath the glass to get the shapes. Then I arranged different colored flashlights around the setup and observed what looks cool. So I placed the colors at a low angle right on the glass as well.
Ziel war's, die Partikel aufzurichten und so interessante Formen und Texturen zu erzeugen. Dazu war der Sand oben auf dem Glas und ich bewegte die Magnete unter dem Glas. Dann habe ich verschiedenen Farben aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln ausgerichtet. Deshalb habe ich die Farben ebenfalls in einem niedrigen Winkel direkt auf dem Glas platziert.
Light Painting Results
Playing with different colors and different vantage points.
These Light Painting shots are technically very simplistic only a few seconds long single exposure at ISO 100 and usually with a Sigma 105mm F2.8 Macro lens set to F22. I cast the lights always at a super low angle light from all directions.
Diese Light Painting Aufnahmen sind technisch gesehen eigentlich sehr simpel, nur wenige Sekunden lange Einzelbelichtung bei ISO 100 und normalerweise mit einem Sigma 105mm F2.8 Makroobjektiv, eingestellt auf F22. Das Licht kam immer aus einem extrem niedrigen Winkel aus allen Richtungen aus.
Man, I totally got sucked into this rabbit hole for a few hours. I kept changing the angle for the light and pretty much anything looked so cool. It felt like thois Kaleidoskope images, You can not get enough of all the combination possible.
Mann, ich wurde für ein paar Stunden völlig in dieses Wurmloch aus Farben hineingezogen. Egal wie Ich die Einfallswinkel des Lichts änderte, irgendwie sah alles ziemlich so cool aus. Bisschen wie bei Kaleidoskop Bildern - da kann man auch nie genug bekommen.
I think there is more and I guess we can say I will play with this again .. that's for sure!
What do you think? Please tell me which color combination you like the most.
I hope you found these images inspirational. If you have more questions please do not hesitate. I am happy to share my knowledge.
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