Morning world...It's Friday. Happy days.
I hope you are all well and that life is good.
Here's a shot from my second favourite woodland. Situated just off the Snake Pass in the Peak District and about half an hours drive from home. It's a dense pine forest which is pretty much dark during the day. At night it has a very moody demeanour and lends itself well to such shots.
Here I asked my friend Paulo to stand very still surrounded by the awesome trees which look to be closing in on him. I took a light writer with an orange gel and started snaking it from the trees and wrapping my mate in light as if the trees had a hold on him.
I then trailed all the lights out if the bottom of the frame as a nice leading line into the shot for the eye to follow.
Next I walked around the periphery of the frame cross lighting the trees and ground. Having a light source at right handles to the camera does a really great job of bringing out textures and adding some dynamic contrast to the scene. Always an important thing to think about when light painting.
I finished up with an acrylic rod and strobing torch which I span in a circle behind him to give his silhouette some background separation.
All shot during a single long exposure in complete darkness.
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