I have shot many times in the dark before and noticed how many images I have of the most silhouetted lightpainter on the planet posing in silhouette. I'm not exactly sure how it worked out this way but I cut a much larger silhouette and I'd probably block out the lights with my large frame! I've not posted the most silhouetted lightpainter's name to see if any of my fellow lightpainters recognise him!
It's become kind of a standard feature with our collaborations where the most silhouetted lightpainter in the world poses for images. We've shot in many locations across the north of England and not once have we managed to capture the dark figure not silhouetted!
The Woodhead Collider
I shot this around the time they'd fired up the Large Hadron Collider somewhere in Europe. I decided to make my own LHC in a tunnel under the Woodhead Pass in Derbyshire. It's also possibly a dangerous image to make for digital camera sensors. Pointing a laser at a camera sensor is not the best idea so here the laser is pointed away from the camera.
This was simple enough to make. First shoot the central silhoutte, then pan the camera and rotated the camera on it's lens axis 8 ways on the lasers.
Lime Kiln Karma
This was one of my earlier camera rotation images where I've hung the most silhouetted lightpainter in the world upside down. I think I'd like to do a remake of this one with the knowledge I've gained since making this one.
Circumvolution
An evening of lens and tripod swapping in Padley Gorge, shot in one photographic exposure as usual with liberal amounts of levels adjustments due to me misplacing my SOOC mojo at the time. I found it again shortly afterwards....
Experimental with the emphasis on mental
An evening stood in a old dark railway tunnel with an employer provided laser level device which turns out to be quite good for light painting. Shot in one photographic exposure as usual
Getting more than I bargained for
I managed to find a cheap fractal filter on fleabay and wanted to see what happens when I used it with a camera rotation tool. Turns out you get even more of the most silhouetted lightpainter in the world!
Circle of lost OCD*
A return trip to our favourite lightpainting location, the lime kiln in Derbyshire where I made use of Denis Smith's Ball of Light tool. Another image made in one photographic exposure and also the kind of shot that leads to obsession if you don't line it up properly!
Cutting it in Coldstones Cut
An absolutely amazing location in North Yorkshire, this place is a public sculpture / art piece consisting of 12 feet high granite walls around in a kind of mock street. Here the most silhouetted lightpainter in the world is stood atop the mini-roundabout which also casts a great surfboard!
Purge
A shot from a wander around an abandoned bomb store. We found this smaller tunnel on site with water droplets hanging off the ceiling. This is a lens and tripod swap shot made in one photographic exposure and yet another silhouette!
Follow your own light
Also in the bomb store, it's quite useful lightpainting during daylight hours in the dark, abandoned corridors left behind. This is a quick and simple stepped zoom pull shot with a continuous light source. The zoom creates a corridor itself which I wasn't expecting.
A silhouette within a silhouette
I went through a phase where I was obsessed with making a silhouette appear inside a silhouette of the most silhouetted lightpainter in the world! Never mind the most silhouetted lightpainter in the world, this is most I've ever included the word silhouette in a post! Haha!
About me:
I usually specialise in shooting lightpainting images but occasionally dabble in urbex and artistic model photography. I'm always on the lookout for someone to collaborate with; please don't hesitate to get in touch if you'd like to create art.
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Lightpainting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source while taking a long exposure photograph, either to illuminate a subject or to shine a point of light directly at the camera, or by moving the camera itself during exposure. Nothing is added or removed in post processing.
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