Space Oddity - Lightpainting on Hive

Good evening one and all. Today is a triple post kind of a day after a couple of weeks off.

Here's another lightpainting I created last week which I had lots of fun creating. This is the magic of lightpainting for me. I had a completely blank canvas in a single white wall in a completely dark room. All you need is a few light sources, a few simple tools and a spoonfull of imagination. Here's a quick breakdown for those interested...

I was trawling through my old 365s earlier looking for inspiration and found an iteration of this and decided to give it a redo.

I managed to get the bedroom dark enough then got set up. Tripod 1 facing the only bit of bare wall big enough to fit me in and framed myself. I tucked 1 x Yongnuo 560iv in the back of my shorts with an old orange water pistol tank over the end, then once happy I added the blue fiber optics from lp brushes. Once happy with that I set up tripod two facing a piece of black card covered in pin pricks and worked on placement of the main flares and their formation. I boxed that off and returned to tripod 1.

I fired the shutter which fired the flash then reached for the blue fibers gripped between my thighs. I worked on my left hand first and my torso then my head before swapping hands and lighting my right hand. I replaced the lens cap, swapped tripods and lenses from 20mm to 50mm. I removed that lens cap and methodically created the stars back lighting the card until happy. Job done.

Originally inspired by the sublime work of R Digi.

All shot in a single long exposure with some light tinkering in Lightroom for mobile.

Happy days.

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!