Last night, @inksurgeon messaged me to ask if I wanted to take a trip out in to the dark. Never one to miss out on a lightpainting opportunity, I said yes and bundled myself in to my car and sped down the road to pick up Rob on the way to this abandoned waterworks.
I've posted about the waterworks and the daylight urbex recce here: https://peakd.com/hive-104387/@fastchrisuk/urban-exploration-around-redmires-waterworks-sheffield
It's very useful to visit these abandoned places in advance and more importantly in daylight. The route down a slippy banking and over a dry stone wall isn't easy. If I had visited this place in the dark for the first time, it would have been all the more dangerous.
Once inside the main "hall" of the waterworks, I gave Rob the "ten cent" tour and we set up tripods and lighting gear. This is what I got:
All shot in one exposure as usual, these photos are not photo manipulations, they're all created in camera.
Scanners
The wooden door frame surviving in this derelict building made a great frame for this pan and tilt effect I like to use. Last night was cold and the mist created the background seperation needed for this kind of shot.
Spinny swirly thing
This technique using a camera rotation device I've done before and I'm not sure how best to describe it. It involves shooting a central figure then turning the camera 45 degrees and walking towards camera with a light on the end of a cord. And then rotating the camera every 90 degrees thereafter.
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I always pack the fractal filter these days....
Reject?
Here I used the fractal filter again and the result was unexpected. I was hoping to see fractal red strips all the way around the silhouette but they only appeared at the top. Probably needed to rotate the filter slightly and lower the backlight strength.
Scale
Stood a bit further back in frame really emphasises the scale of this place.
Simple is sometimes best
I find if I post complicated to make lightpainting shots on social media, the viewers seem to like the simpler images more. It's wierd. I'd like to be appreciated for the skills and complexity but that just doesn't happen. So here's one I prepared earlier which was extremely easy to make. It's bound to be popular!
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Spinny swirly thing, that one would drive me crazy trying to get it just right. This is so cool. My favourite is the third one, that stuttering effect with slamming red colour up against blue like that, plus the angle. The fifth one is my second favourite, again the colours, the movement and different angle. I like all of them, even the simpler one a the end. Sometimes simple is very powerful when done well.
Thanks @nineclaws :-) The spinny swirly thing alignment tends to tweak my pseudo OCD and I almost didn't post it! Last night I wished I'd took my large RGB LED panel instead of using a Godox AD200 at the back of the frame; the panel has more colour choices where with the flash I'm limited to what colour gels I have in my bag. (It's heavy enough already!)
You're welcome! I'm glad you posted that spinny swirly thing because I stared at it thinking how this would drive me crazy and I'd break something trying to shoot such an image while still never getting it right.
It's not fun lugging around equipment, totally get that, since my tripod never goes outside anywhere because I don't want to lug it. These are great shots. I admire the camaraderie of working with others.
Great set of light paintings mate. I think I have to clean my prisms and go out at night. 😁
Thanks pal, my prism kept misting up last night.....
Great serie mate.
I also have a prism filter but I never use it.
Cheers pal, I'd love to get back in here with a model to shoot!
mint dude
Cheers pal, a quick productive sesh!
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These really are fantastic pictures. The swirlies are really mind boggling, and super neat.