Fiber Optic Light Painting Portrait Session
Not every night works out as planned. With only two hours at hand, I wanted to walk away at least with one Light Painting. If under pressure we all fall back to the technique we think we can handle and like. For me, that is the black fiber optic brush. In the last weeks and months not being able to light paint was bothering me so this turned in parts into a therapy session. It was so nice to finally produce some images.
This night I spend with Sheffer, yes that's her name. She is a model from Ukraine. The world has turned crazy for her, we all can assume that much. Long story short it is helping her and me. We helped one another. It is not the normal dynamic during shooting if you have that kind of looming dragon flying over but we managed to get some images.
Nicht jede Nacht läuft wie geplant. Mit nur zwei Stunden Zeit zur Hand, wollte ich zumindest mit einem Light Painting davonkommen. Wenn wir unter Druck stehen, greifen wir alle auf die Technik zurück, von der wir glauben, dass wir damit umgehen können und mögen. Für mich eben die schwarzen Lichtleiterpinsel. In den letzten Monaten kam ich nicht zum lightpainten, so wurde das shooting auch für mich teilweise zur Therapiesitzung. Endlich wieder ein paar Bilder produzieren.
Diese Nacht shootete ich mit Sheffer, ja, das ist ihr Name. Sie ist ein Model aus der Ukraine. Wie verrückt Ihre Welt geworden ist, können wir alle nur vermuten. Lange Rede kurzer Sinn, es hilft ihr und mir. Wir haben uns gegenseitig geholfen. Sicher nicht die normale Dynamik beim Fotografieren, wenn man im Hinterkopf Krieg und Zerstörung hat, aber wir haben einige Bilder hinbekommen.
What was the setup?
What you see as Light Painting is a single 83 loooooong exposure time photograph. The camera was set to ISO 100 and the Canon 70-200mm F2.8 lens was set to F11.
Was Ihr hier als Light Painting seht eine einzel Aufnahmen mit 83 Sekunden Belichtungszeit. Die Kamera war auf ISO 100 und das Canon 70-200mm F2.8 Objektiv war auf F11 eingestellt.
Yes, but how?
Throughout the process Didi was standing at the exact same spot for all the 212 seconds of the exposure. I used the scanner to light her up. After that I was rotating the camera only 30°. Then she chose a new pose for the next scan. The camera was open for the entire process so what you see is not a composite image but one with no Photoshop effects.
Während des gesamten Vorgangs 212 Sekunden stand Didi an genau derselben Stelle. Ich benutzte den Scanner, um sie zu beleuchten. Danach habe ich die Kamera nur um 30° gedreht. Dann wählte sie eine neue Pose für den nächsten Scan. Die Kamera war während des gesamten Vorgangs geöffnet, was Sie also sehen, ist kein zusammengesetztes Bild, sondern eines ohne Photoshop-Effekte.
The Tools
For these images, I used the black fiber brush and a scanner, both with white light only. As simple as it gets.
Das Werkzeug
Für diese Bilder benutzte ich meinen Scanner und die schwarze Glasfaserbürste nur mit weißem Licht.
I used the scanner on the left to shine some light over her body before adding the fiber optic brush for additional features.
Ich benutzte den Scanner ganz links, für ihren Körper, bevor ich die zusätzliche effecte mit der Fiber Brush hinzufügte.
Step 1
Just a quick test. Scan the hair and the back of her.
Schritt 1
Schnell mit dem Scanner einmal einleuichten.
Step 2
Like always I add the fiber optic effects usually at the end. So I did here to make sure I have her still not moving during the exposure. At first, I was only testing some shapes, but I was not as creative so I stuck with some basic shapes.
Here I was going for a wing-like effect to make her; light.
Schritt 2
Wie immer fügte ich die Glasfasereffekte am Ende hinzu. Hier hab ich das getan, um sicherzustellen, dass sie sich während der Belichtung nicht bewegt. Das war sicher nicht mein kreativster Abend, also blieb es bei einigen Grundformen.
Hier wollte ich einen flügelartigen Effekt erzielen.
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Such a great effects with the fibre optic @gunnarheilmann 😎 angel wings…
So great to hear you found some time to light paint a little… therapeutic it so can be 😁
Have an amazing Sunday 👋🏻☀️
As always... Thank you soooo much for your encuragement and support. You are awesome 🤗
You are so sooooo welcome @gunnarheilmann 😁👋🏻 With pleasure! 😉💃🏻
Keep sharing amazing work.
This is simply beautiful. Such a creative expression and a really lovely technique. Keep up the awesome work.
Thank you mate. Super happy about ever comment and that makes it worth while the effort. 🙏
great work!
Thank you so much 🙏 Glad you like it and thanx for your support.