![]() I was delighted and said yes.Ī few days pass, and he asked if I could provide another set of photos to accompany a live performance of a Soundscape, by Diane Dunn, during the same gig. I was recently asked if a friend of mine could use photos from my Driving Lights collection. Some of these shots are me simply driving the camera, and other’s me painting. Read this post “ The story behind my Favourite Light Painting image” to see the image and how it evolved Though I had to resort to using my own Canon 70D, as I’m familiar with it. Thanks OlympusUK Events for putting on this workshop, as it not only provided the opportunity to try a new camera, but also meant I had the chance to recreate an image I had in mind “ Soldier Ghosts Marching Home“. It took me a while to get my head round this, as I’m so accustomed to painting, then running round back to the camera to see what I’ve got. The camera takes a 2 second “noise reduction” frame, and it’s then primed to start… Hit the shutter again, start painting, and you can see the image appearing on the screen in real time, bit by bit. In short, you set you camera up, focus, then hit the shutter. We wandered into the Caves and were each given an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II with M.Zuiko Digital 12-40mm PRO Lens, and were shown how to drive the “Live Composite” feature.Īs someone who light paints in one shot or by multiple exposures, this was really different for me. I had the pleasure of attending an Olympus UK Events workshop at Chislehurst Caves, on the 19th October 2010. However, the bonus of digital, is you get to see each layer, and if you screw one up, you go back one layer and redo it, which I had to with the poppy! This is nothing new, you used to be able to do this in the old 35mm film days. First the green misty grass, then the poppy, then the soldiers, then the cave walls. This shot is 4 images which the camera lays on top of each other. How’s it done? This was using a Canon 70 with Multiple Exposures enabled. I’m sure I’ll revisit this again, but for now (today at least) this is it □ It’s still not right, but that’s part of the journey. Put it all together and I ended up with this, which I was rather pleased with.Īfter playing around with the Olympus, which was great fun ( see some samples in Light Painting With an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mk2), I came up with this… But I couldn’t help thinking it needed something more, so I thought “can I paint a poppy?”. Strobe light painting of stick men, around a dome – part of my 365 project of 2017Įxcept now I have some Electro Luminescent wire and reckon thought that could add a new dimension! So…… I had a practise on the driveway and came up with this. A while back, I ran a small workshop with friends and came up with a line of stick men walking bay a dome. I got me thinking, what would I paint down in the caves. An Olympus UK event promoting the OM-D E-M1 Mk2 and the chance to play around with its unique “Live Composite” feature. I’ll be back with more images and tips, once I’ve got the hang of it □īy chance I saw an advert on Facebook for a light painting work shop in Chislehurst Caves. The challenge here is how to paint the image at the right scale and at the right angle! Kept me busy for a while, over the Christmas break. Here’s the result of the Millenium Clock outing.įollowing the first outing, I thought I’d see if I could PixelStick an Aston Martin DB5 on the road. However, I didn’t realise the converter tool on the site converts PNG file transparency to white! So lesson learned is ensure transparent areas of your image, must be black, as obviously, black = no light! When photographing the Storm Trooper, go too slow and he was too wide, too fast, and too thin. My son and I set up the camera and tripod and set about wafting the stick, left to right, in front of the camera. It’s not just about the image on the card, it’s about timing, pace, brightness settings. Not as easy as I thought it would be though. I’d already had the image in my head, of characters and maybe a Tardis beneath the Millenium Clock in the centre of my home town, Tunbridge Wells. Since I’m borrowing this thing, my first outing was a simple cut to the chase, using some pre-prepared images from. Put simply, it allows you to paint bitmap images, from and SD card, in thin air! Got my hands on any Light Painter’s bucket list, the PixelStick.
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