The wall of flames was “painted in during an 8 second exposure, ƒ11 at ISO 100 We would use one of the “ribbon” graphics in another shot a couple days later, but this morning was going to be all about fire and the devil… so… once we got our basic exposure down, we waited for our devil to show up… Andrea showed up with the prefect costume. Here is one of our test shots with Bobbi standing in, using one of the built-in ribbon graphics for a test exposure: Bobbi stood in for a test shot- 8 seconds at ƒ11, ISO 200 The key was to balance the street lights, front flash, and Pixelstick into an integrated exposure. This time we wanted a more distant background with the Doge’s Palace behind the subject. Marks square and began testing for our devil shot. The following morning, with 9 of our tour participants in tow, we arrived in St. Success in this type of photography involves careful testing and lots of different shots to get the ideal combination of front light with the best Pixelstick image. With a successful test under belt we made plans for the following morning, arriving even earlier to have more time before the sun came up! Once our costumed subject saw the image she became very excited… “I have a devil costume that would be perfect for this!” she exclaimed! The image of the fire was painted into the scene-because it is an actual light source and not simply composited into the scene in Photoshop, the flames reflect naturally off the environment to create a very realistic effect.
#PIXELSTICK INSTAGRAM MANUAL#
The shoot was done with the Fujifilm GFX in manual exposure mode, on “T” with an 8-second exposure, ƒ11, ISO 100-a Fujifilm EF-X500 shoe mount flash provided the front light, placed on the ground using the little “mini stand.” The flash was fired manually right after the exposure was initiated, using a remote trigger-I then walked behind the subject holding the pixel stick vertically, and just walking it across the frame. This year we were ready with the Pixelstick for the pre-dawn gathering of costumers, who arrive before daylight to pose for the serious photographers willing to be up at 5:00 am! We set up for your first test of the Pixelstick and grabbed the first costumer we saw… Our first test of the Pixelstick with a costumer in Saint Marks square-Andrea was very excited by the results! Venice during Carnival is a most amazing, magical, experience, with spectacular photography opportunities around every corner. Perhaps the most interesting of these images are the set of “fire” images-we were very excited to apply the fire effects with the Venice Carnival costumers!
#PIXELSTICK INSTAGRAM DOWNLOAD#
Pixelstick supplies a set of default graphic images built-in, with a number of other pre-formatted images available for download from their website. You can feed literally any image into the Pixelstick, and then “paint” the image into a dark scene by waving the Pixelstick through the scene.
The intensity, and color of each of 200 lights is controlled through a timed application of a bitmap image-sort of like a flatbed scanner in reverse. A handle is configured such that the “stick” can spin around the handle, allowing for interesting light painting effects. The assembled Pixelstick is 73″ long with 200 LED lights arranged along its length. The Pixelstick is a linear array of LED lights in a hand holdable, spinning, configuration. For now, I’d like to introduce you to the Pixelstick!
I had been planing to create some images using the amazing Pixelstick, a very cool, programable light painting device, and Venice Carnival was the perfect setting for creative play! You can see more about the Fujifilm GFX in my previous blog post here. While we were on our photo tour of Venice Carnival, Bobbi Lane and I had a great opportunity to test out a prototype of Fujifilm’s new medium format camera, the GFX.
Pixelstick meet Fujifilm… now lets create!
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