Now clear you can do it with pretty much everything from a phone light to steel wool ( which I have done)īut I wanted to take things to the next level so I started looking in to the pixelstick, but at 350$ not sure it's worth it. Photos courtesy of Derick Rhodes, Duncan Frazier, and Stephen McGuigan (rainbow light with bridge backdrop, and what sparks our fire) and Darlene Hildebrandt ( old abandoned firetruck).I've been looking in to light painting lately. Whatever the effect, it may be the light in front of the camera that decides the beauty, rather than the eye of the beholder. The familiar item, person or area is recreated. The artist creates interest for an item that may not have warranted a second glace.
This is where we find the theoretical simplicity of light painting. Their intent may be to create suspense, excitement or focus. Other times it is on an old abandoned firetruck in a field (see image included). Maybe the effect is on you if you are striking a pose. That’s exactly it! The effect it has on the subject. This opens up the endless possibilities of the Pixelstick.Add in the potential of creating a video of light, and you can have hours of exploration at hand! The small size and programmable nature of LEDs allows the freedom to change spatial location and colour with little to no restriction. However, the ‘screen’ becomes non-existent as the black aluminum casing and the operator disappear into the background. Using bitmaps, the programming allows the user to create very fine detail since jumping activation of the LEDs is facilitated. The stick has a SD card slot to upload a bitmap image file (BMP) for expression. The Pixelstick is a linear bar of 200 RGB LEDs. In either method the night sky is often used as the canvas. This requires a steady hand for the long exposure shot making this technique more difficult. The creator moves the camera instead to generate an abstract image. The second and alternative way melds artist and photographer. Primarily an artist uses a hand-held light source to draw an image in the air while a photographer co-part captures the scene. Light painting is accomplished in one of two ways. We cover the operation and potential of the LED Pixelstick below. As it applies to our current world, we have replaced the bulb, match, flashlight, or sparkler with our tiny light emitting diodes (LED) technology.
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This involves a lot of trial and error as the light is manipulated to create the intended impact. Ultimately it has revolved around using a source of light to create lines of an image while taking a long exposure shot with a camera. Let us back up for a minute to understand what light painting means across the ages.
LED lights lead the way in making light painting easy, versatile and precise. It creates simple single colour lines, complex rainbow coloured graphics, or photo-realistic faces and objects. A new product, the Pixelstick , is a programmable LED “paintbrush” designed specially for this process. This art form has begun to resurface as the digital age becomes more popular. Light painting has been around for almost 130 years and doesn’t require any of the normal clean up from traditional painting.
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