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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I love this stuff man. All you lightpainters on here create some incredible imagery. Upvoted reblogged. Love it
Cheers for the kind words mate. We're all glad we found Hive and that people like your good self are enjoying our stuff. Happy days.
Wow nice
Thanks very much.