Hi,
Last year in November, I was looking for underground quarries in Charentes, along the river. I met a friend of mine and we spotted several suitable locations to spend the night beneath the surface.
But, we heard about a place named the Lapidiales : back in the days, local farmers were used to work as quarrymen a part of the year for extra salary and quarrymen were working in the fields for the same reason. This created an exchange and a stone culture in the area, that's why the Lapidiales project naturally took place here. Local elected officials saw a good way to reconnect local people to the memory of the quarry exploitation, and a great way to project it in a great future.
The site is now a open air quarry where sculptors from all over the world are invited to work stone the way they want, in front of the public.
As we saw the Galaxie des Pierres Levées (Galaxy of Standing Stones) and the Lapidiales, we forgot everything we saw before and we decided to focus on that.
Our first trip was cool but we wanted more. We came back last summer with this unique goal : exploring the site the more we could and spend several hours at night to do lightpainting.
Here are a couple of pictures I made at the end of the session. I first lit the path only using my backlight scanner. As I was happy about the result, I made the same with the addition of an abstract light-calligraphy on the right side of the frame.
I really love the mix of stone and foiliage, what do you think about it?
Lightpainting created in real time, captured to the camera in single photographic frames. SOOC
No layers /no Photoshop / no editing except minor adjustments (lens correction profite, WB, contrast (+12)) and addition of my logo.
Gear :
Canon EOS 6D body
Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS II USM lens
Canon RC-E6 IR remote
Zomei carbon tripod
July 2024
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.
/nolayer /notricks /nophotoshop
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