One of the things no-one tells you about as you embark on the journey in to lightpainting is the inevitable obsessive compulsion to nail a shot. The level of complexity required to make these shots only makes it worse.
Circles of OCD
We visited a new to us tunnel this evening just off the Stocksbridge Bypass north of Sheffield and set up just as the dark arrived. I lined my lightpainting buddy up in the centre of frame and created an improvised outline using a supermarket carrier bag from Sainsburys. This outline is achieved by furiously waving the bag whilst waving even more furiously a flashlight at the bag.
Once I'd nailed the silhoutte lightpainted by carrier bag, I turned the camera 45 degrees to the right and added the spirals using a Ball of Light (tm) tool. It would take me ages to explain how we achieved this but suffice to say, OCD played a big part in this image!
All shot in one photographic exposure, this is not a Photoshop creation!
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Super cool mate. The ocd is strong in this one :)
Cheers pal, use of carrier bag due to lack of smoke....nice to nail it though....
You did mate. I'd like to see a version where you took each bol spin out of the frame so all the colours interlaced around the edge of the frame. That would be epic. Good skills as is though mate. Love it.