Light Painting In Paraty (Brazil)

After about 25 years, I finally visited Paraty again,
a charming colonial town in the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Paraty has an almost completely preserved historical architecture from the 17th century and is therefore a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town is surrounded by the Atlantic rainforest with several waterfalls and the Atlantic coast with many islands and diving paradises.

At night, the city is well lit. Light painting is hardly possible in these lighting conditions. The restaurants are usually busy until late at night. You might as well do light painting in daylight. In the end, I decided to create an image for my ‘Target’ series.

The next day, I positioned myself in front of the church ‘Nossa Senhora das Dores’, built in 1800.

For this, I mounted an ND1000 filter in front of the lens. The camera was mounted on a gimbal, which was mounted on a tripod. I held a torch about 30 cm in front of the camera, rotated it 360° and then let the exposure continue. I had used this technique before and described it here:

Link to the post about how I created TARGET

Because the city of Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay is very similar to the Brazilian city of Paraty, I created a light painting with some lettering during my visit to Colonia, which fits very well with today's theme. The picture below shows Colonia del Sacramento.