I captured this last year on a lonely road near Coraki, NSW.
I've been light painting for about 4 years now and when I venture out to a location, I usually try some of my go-to (and well-practiced) shapes to get the tool brightness and camera settings right. Spirals I find quite easy (but a bit dizzying) to create and I love how they look in the final image, particularly the lines they draw on the road surface and I find them especially fitting when combined with the Milky Way (given it's galactic spiral arms containing 100 billion stars).
This image was captured in a single exposure. The tool I used for the spiral was a red acrylic tube with an orange plastic tip taped on the end (scroll for pix). Torch used was a Nitecore P26.
Camera settings:
10mm, f/4.5
ISO-3200, 30secs
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