Rain may not stop us from Light Painting.
As many see I have been to quite some places in the past years. Lucky me, get to travel the world. Of course, most of my travels are on halt because of Covid.
Here I want to share one of the coolest locations I got to Light Paint in the past years. Looking back I should have done more. But I guess I have one excuse and that was the rain. I am sure I will get to go to Kyoto once again and then I can realize a few more ideas that are still stuck in my head. So many ideas so little time.
Going to Japan is already exciting no matter where you go. Once I knew my itinerary and Kyoto was on it, with a few nights, I knew I want to get at least something done in the Bamboo forest that is all so famous.
Wie viele von euch schon bemerkt haben ich komme ganz gut rum. Zu meinem Glück konnte ich schon einiges auf dieser Welt bereisen. Selbstverständlich sind die meisten meiner Reisen derzeitig wegen Covid "on hold". Heute möchte ich einen der coolsten Orte teilen, an denen ich in den letzten Jahren zum Light Painting gekommen bin. Rückblickend denke ich, da war noch mehr drin. Aber ich denke, ich habe eine Ausrede; es hat immer stärker geregnet und das war dann wirklich nicht mehr schön. Ganz sicher geht es noch mal nach Kyoto und dann kann ich noch ein paar Ideen verwirklichen, die mir im Kopf rum schwirren. Japan ist schon super spannend. Als ich wusste es geht nach Kyoto , wusste ich, dass ich zumindest etwas im berühmten Bambuswald lightpainten muss.
What were the settings?
What you see is a featured Light Painting is a single 41 second exposure time photograph. The camera was always set to ISO 200 and the Lens to F4.5
Was Ihr als Cover Light Painting seht ist eine einzige Aufnahme mit 41s Belichtungszeit. Die Kamera war auf ISO 200 und das Objektiv auf F4.5 eingestellt.
You do see once again one the final Light Paintings first. Then I shared with you two Lighting tests of the path ways.
Hier seht Ihr zuerst eines der finalen Light Paintings. Dies nächsten Bilder zeigt den einfachen Beleuchtungstests, um zu sehen, wie stark die Bäume reflektieren.
The image below I have shared some years ago is still one of my favorites of all time. The simplicity and the colors as well as my colleague's silhouette. It just works so nicely. The difference here is posture. Slightly different. In the main shot he is much more relaxed and today I think it works better
Das Bild unten, das ich vor einigen Jahren geteilt habe, ist immer noch einer meiner Lieblingsbilder. Was ich mag ist die Schlichtheit und die Farben sowie die Silhouette meines Kollegen. Es funktioniert einfach so schön. Der Unterschied liegt hier in der Körperhaltung. Etwas anders. In der Hauptaufnahme ist er viel entspannter und heute finde ich, dass es besser funktioniert
This is still one of my all-time favorites.
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What does it look like during the day?
There are millions of photos of the Kyoto Bambooforest on the web so I am not going to share the famous view. Looking to the side of the forest gives you an idea of the scenery.
Es gibt Millionen von Fotos des Kyoto-Bambuswaldes im Internet, daher werde ich die berühmte Aussicht nicht teilen. Ein Blick zur die Seite des Waldes gibt Ihnen eine gute Vorstellung von der Scene.
I hope you found these images inspirational. If you have more questions please do not hesitate. I am happy to share my knowledge.
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Traumhafte Location und schöne Bilder.
Ja da träume ich auch ab und zu nochmal.
Daaanke
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Woah, das erste Foto ist mir unglaublich am schönsten.
Es sieht wie Magie aus 😍
Danke fürs Kompliment ;-)
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At first, I was thinking of ignoring this and going like 'whatever'. Then it got me thinking. Something is not coherent here and I feel like answering your post because I respect your works for the most part.
At first, though thank you @hivewatchers for taking the effort to point out that my posts may be too similar for your taste. Which I acknowledge to a large extent. Yet I do have a slide different view on Spam as explained on discord. I will evaluate how to be more careful and "compliant" to fit your restrictions. I need to sleep over that.
Let us look at your post.
Explanation: The main and featured Light Painting shot is what differentiates the post to which you relate to:
To you, this may not be worth two posts, because it's at the same location, yet they represent two different techniques of light painting that matter to Light Painters. Yet also your reasoning makes it important to put them into context and refer to the prior posts. Which I do. To most light painters I know, the small differences in setting and Light tools are what counts. Explaining the context and showing the ready the prior content (lighting exercises may be the same shot) without them going to another page was in purpose to make them not follow some link.
Appeal: The post you refer to is way past the payout

The post's main Image is what I feature and explain here. In your opinion it's Spam?
Your explanation on Discord is somewhat sound but not as fully coherent as it seems. Therefore not fully serving the purpose you proclaim. May times I see your work as extremely valuable to the Hive. I have seen multiple times content that has been reposted. In my 3 year history here I have not used an Image twice as the main featured content. I have put a lot of effort to have unique content almost every day or every other day.
I take the critique that the parts of the explanation about the location and the signature that I use and translation of the content accumulate a higher ratio of "reused" content, yet it serves another purpose than deceiving the audience and spamming. I am not trying to sell the same content twice - I serve context for the first-time reader without driving to more page clicks to other posts.
After rethinking I see that answering this meant more to me than first expected. Because just as you I see Hive as a great platform and Trolling, Spamming, Phishing, and anything along the lines is to be held at bay. I get that and that's part of the reason I was so active here the past 3 years.
There is no black and white here. I do understand what you trying to do and agree to some extent. Do not forget there are a few thousand humans here and your actions have a far stronger impact than you think, it's early in the Hive development. Your actions here are much more important than you seem to think, the way it was was performed drives away content creators with good intent! Just pushing a narrative without trying to understand is just as hurtful to a community - that's how Facebook is going down. Opening a channel of communication is super useful to create bridges and advice on what we all envision for the Hive.
Why not take the effort and reach out to a content creator and explain how we all move forward. Your behavior is a reflection of the culture of Hive. This was never planned as a public discourse. The part about the Blockchain that everyone has to acknowledge is visible forever.
Ego aside:
From here on I simply ignore it for my sake and interact with the followers I have. But is that good for the ecosystem I held dear for so long? I don't even know who is posting this. Am I in the position to change someone's mind who is already set to a narrative? NO! Just a bot with no feelings? I don't have to try that at all! Is that an actual human with the qualification and right to judge, see, and understand the difference between the two main featured Light Paintings of two different blog posts?
Whoever read my rant here thank you... 😤😀
Now it feels better, sometimes it's good to just let it out, even if it is just a one-way street. Used to really like it here.
Cheers
Gunnar
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