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CWB, cropped straight off the RAW. Clarting about seeing what my new extra cheapo LED glo-stick would produce.
My third shot after some weeks of abstinence in photography and light painting. Also taken at the water tower in Neu-Ulm.
As usual this picture has been taken in one shot. Only colours have been adjusted with GIMP. No pixels have been added or removed.
My ride to Las Vegas and back! ;-) Of course, one can NEVER be sure if they are "The First" at anything, but up until now, I have not seen or heard of anyone having any type of Light Painting Photos mounted on their vehicle or a trailer... up until now! ;-) Ha!
With 5000+ Miles (8000+ kilometers for the normal part of the world!) ahead of me, I think that my business and LP in general will get some visibility out of this! ;-) And that is NOTHING compared to the main reason I am heading to Vegas in the first place! ;-)
MANY MANY MANY THANKS TO jah~ for graciously granting me permission to use the outstanding photo that he created using the PCP (Programmed Color Phaser) for advertising purposes!!
I still have one more big project to finish up tonight and tomorrow and then hopefully I can get everything packed and ready to Rock-N-Roll and do some LP!!! (Can you tell I am excited!?! Ha!) Stay tuned! More to come! :-)
Looking for a new location around Durham city for some LP scenes & remembered this spot high up overlooking the Cathedral & City ;-)
How do I start a new series in a new city? Well this is my 'spin' on it. Paris has many nicknames, but its most famous is "La Ville-Lumière" ("The City of Light" or "The Illuminated City"), a name it owes first to its fame as a centre of education and ideas during the Age of Enlightenment, and later to its early adoption of street lighting. Well I was in the city with my students so there is the link with education and secondly I made a light, led devise that I could put a bit of light on the city myself with a bit of light painting. Having read about these light orbs I thought that it would make an apt start to my Paris series. My ever first attempt! Something I might try to perfect later. Also for once no photoshop, except for straightening, oh this is the Sacre Coeur.
For those of you interested in making your own I used this excellent tutorial by Digi cord
Press L to be illuminated!
Have you ever tried to creat a fisheye lightpainting in the rain? I have. Don't do it!
Sometimes things go not the way you want...
It all began with more vitsitors of my flickr stream than expected. Within 9 months I've got another 50.000 clicks, what took about 3 years first time. Some of you may laugh about a sum of 100.000 visits, but for me, that's quite a lot and I am really happy about all these people watching my photographs. And I really want to say thank you - with this picture!
I knew that moment would come but couldn't find time to create a "jubilee" picture. Or I completely forgot about it when I would have had the time and possibility (e.g. after the E-M1 event in Stuttgart). So, when the counter reached about 99.500 yesterday evening, I decided it was time to go and create something. Unforeseeable satisfied with the shots I have made in front of the Wagenhallen in Stuttgart, I decided to try something similar at the ROXY in Ulm. I took the car, went there, searched for a good location, spoiled some shots by wanting to use new tools and adding too many colours. And when I finally had found a nice setting in front of the "Akademie für Kommunikation" and had decided to use my fisheye lens... it started to rain! Argh!
Anyway I have finished my painting somehow, without a second try. And now it's the way it is! The raindrops have added some special effect. Hope you like it. For sure it's not my best but also not my worst shot and lightpainting ever. Probably. I like the blue "100.000" and windows. Although it's not a FHDR, it completes quite well the Stuttgart series.
As usual this picture has been taken in a single shot. No pixels have been added or removed. In this case I have only optimised colours during postprocessing with GIMP.
Have fun!
Tonight some orbs met at the Blaubeurer Tor in Ulm. :-)
This is one of my very first multi orb captures! Just a try.
Although I like the new possibilities I hate my new "orb tool" with the switch. This cable is real rubbish - as you can see! The location was great but I was a litllte bit afraid of disturbing some people in their sleep... Don't think I will go there alone at night for painting again...
With a rather large nod of thanks in the direction of Poole-Shooter Cindi's find your place in the sun for the inspiration.
This was taken with the camera stood on top of the camper!! I took it so I could see where I was going wrong. I think I need to concetrate more on the top than the bottom now!! Although I do like this different perspective.
As this platoon of orbs made their way down the street, I could hear the faint echo of the leader in perfect rhythm... Hup!, Two, Three, Four, Hup!, two, three, four...
I was doing some Orb tool testing the other night to see just how hard I could swing the LEDs around and see if they would reach a point where they would detach and go flying away on their own! I am pleased so say that they stood up to the test! My test anyway. Of course, my son Cameron kept saying that he could break them! And I have no doubt since I have seen him break a few other things that would otherwize stand up to anyone else! Ha! And it is probably a good thing the LEDs did NOT come flying off since it could have dented one of those cars if it had actually happened! 8-O
On another note... I just made some exciting announcements on the LightPaintingTools.com website! Please check them out if you are interested in reading more! Lots of cool things going on! You can subscribe to announcements made on the front page of the website if you want as well!
Light Painting - Single Exposure
So sue me Mazda I'm going to work and plan to fall into bed when I get home because I'm on an early tomorrow, then going to a family gathering after work. Still not feeling too good, woke up at 4am to get paracetemol then settled back off to sleep. Waking up halfway through sleeping because your throat hurts isn't very nice. Feel sorry for me.
This is a crop of a larger shot which I'll probably post at a later date. The original is nice, but I was looking at cropping it up and found this square which I particularly liked. It's a bit psychedelic; wierd. Hope you like it; sort of a blue light orb going through too.
Green light orbs visiting "Berblinger's Traum", Andreas Hauslaibs light installation in the Friedrichsau Ulm, both celebrating the 200th anniversary of Albrecht Berblinger’s historic gliding flight attempt across the Danube.
This picture has been taken in a single exposure. No pixels have been added or removed.
Nothing special, just another test of my newest orb tool.
The long exposure makes the water look quite tranquil. In actuality, it was great white foamy breakers crashing just below the steps. It was loud :)
Portland has zillions of parks, and I'm starting to become more acquainted with my neighborhood park at night. The light from my orb tool attracted some friendly local spirits, which threw my concentration off a bit, but it was still very nice to meet them. I don't usually have an audience, and it was kind of fun to share.
The light pollution helped me get an exposure that works, but if I'd been on my game I wouldn't have included so much of the overcast sky. I believe it's a step in the right direction for me, anyway.
Well thats in now for me until well after Christmas. It was going to be it earlier but everyone headed of to bed at around 10 so I headed out for a hour down the beach.
Best viewed on black!!
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you all have healthy one, and a prosperous new year.
After some weeks of abstinence in photography and light painting I am back with three shots from the water tower in Neu-Ulm I took this night.
This picture is the result of stacking three single orb pictures and adjusting colours with GIMP. No additional pixels have been added or removed. I have done the stacking because of the 30s limit of my Fujifilm S100s that makes it impossble for one person to create such picture in one shot.
I was in the marching band in high school and since our school colors were Green and White, we referred to ourselves as the Mean Green Marching Machine! Something that popped into my head when I saw this shot! Another one of those facts of little interest! ;-)
Anyway... back on track here. This is another test of the Programmable RGB LED Orb Tool. I could throw tests around forever since this tool as the ability to pretty much come up with any orb that you can imagine. So... I just released a quick and dirty tutorial on how to make one of your very own! Can't wait to see what others come up with using this one! :-)
Light Painting - Single Exposure