Fern of the rails

There have not been many trains lately. Do you remember the post with the abandoned bridge I went to with @lichtkunstfoto and @stepko?

In letzter Zeit gab es hier nicht viele Züge. Erinnerst du dich an den Beitrag mit der verlassenen Brücke, die ich mit @lichtkunstfoto und @stepko besucht habe?

While both were busy with getting their shot I looked downwards and was standing right next to a fern.

Während beide damit beschäftigt waren, ihren Schuss zu bekommen, schaute ich nach unten und stand direkt neben einem Farn.

Just because I had the camera rotation kid still set up I thought hey I can spin that and feature the track and the fern.
Just mirroring it wasn't good enough though. I wanted to give it the dynamic feel of a light trail, slash drag so it looks like it's spinning.

Wenn ich die Kamera schon auf dem Rotation-Kit eingerichtet hatte, dachte ich, hey, ich kann das drehen und die Strecke und den Farn zeigen.
Nur zu spiegeln war jedoch nicht gut genug. Ich wollte ihm das dynamische Gefühl eines leichten Trails geben, Slash-Drag, damit es aussieht, als würde es sich drehen.

What were the settings here?

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The first shot is a 36 seconds single exposure with the camera set to ISO 250 In order to get the cool angle, I used the LAOWA 12mm Zero D F2.8 lens. Totally worth it.	Die erste Aufnahme ist eine 36 Sekunden lange Einzelbelichtung bei der die Kamera auf ISO 250 eingestellt war. Um den coolen weiten Blickwinkel zu erhalten, habe ich das LAOWA 12mm Zero D F2.8 Objektiv verwendet.

Here you can see the lighting test without a rotation or any fancy shenanigans.

Hier seht ihr den Beleuchtungstest ohne Drehung oder irgendwelchen ausgefallenen SchnickSchnack.

To get the trails I lit parts of the fern and rotated while keeping the light on it for some parts of the rotation. In the process, I took some 5-10 images in total to see what works best for me. Which one do you like best?

Um den Lichspuren zu erhalten, habe ich Teile des Farns angeleuchtet und dabei die Kamera gedreht, während das Licht für einige Teile der Drehung darauf belassen wurde. Insgesamt habe ich so 5-10 Bilder gemacht, um zu sehen, was für mich am besten funktioniert. Welches magst du am Liebsten?

By the way, yesterday I added three new NFTs to Rarible. All of them also camera rotations. Also very fresh for you.

Übrigens habe ich gestern auch drei neue NFT'S auf Rarible angelegt. Allesamt auch Camera Rotations. Also ganz frisch für euch.

If you follow my blog here you may have seen these - now you can own them.

Wenn Ihr meinem Blog hier folgt, habt Ihr diese vielleicht schon gesehen - jetzt können Sie sie auch zu eurem Eigentum machen. 😎

For those who see this the kind of photography the very first time:
Educational >

Camera Rotation what?

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.
Camera Rotation belongs certainly to Kinetic photography and it is not a very common technique amongst photographers. Light Paintings are choreographed movements with light tools carried out with the camera during a single exposure. During a Camera Rotation, the light sources are often in a fixed position about the camera, and the light trails are then drawn into the picture solely by the camera movements.

These are my two rigs for the camera rotation.

It all comes down to having the camera in different positions or moving “around” during the image. To do so you will need some fixation of your camera. See the image above. There are multiple methods to the madness. As a LightPainter, I would use two major categories. A) Lens is open during the entire Rotation exposure time and B) Closing the lens during the rotation steps and open to imprint the chosen scene. What follows is that people get creative and mix all sorts of methods. But let us look at the first two categories.

See the making of using this technique.

I hope it was also inspirational. If you have more questions please do not hesitate. I am happy to share my knowledge.

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Gunnar Heilmann Photogrpahy

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