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The Austin Healey shot is one of my favorite shots and also one of the first light painted shots I did. This shot was taken in The Netherlands in a beautiful oldschool garage / mancave. The man behind the sparks is the owner and craftsman of his own workshop, building, restoring and rally-preparing Austin Healeys. Most of the time there are around 4 or 5 Healeys standing there in various states. All of them beautiful in it's own way. The ambiance in this place is always so relaxed and classic, like you are right there in the old days.Time
Taken in the late afternoon on a cold winter day. Is was getting dark, so perfect for light painting. Is was not completely dark, but with te garage fully closed and with all the lights of, the setting was perfect.Lighting
This shot could not be done with one exposure. You paint in what you want the viewer to see. With every exposure you light a different part of the shot. For example: The sparks are done without the icelight. Just a single 3 second exposure at iso 100, f8. The other parts are all 5 second exposures.Equipment
Lighting For most of my light painted shots I use a cheap daylight LED 'Icelight'. The light is continuous and dimmable. Camera The camera at the time was a Nikon D7000. I recently upgraded to a D850, which is awesome! Tripod I use a very light MeFOTO A0350Q0. Because I like to carry everything in and on one backpack, this is perfect.Inspiration
I really like mystery, fine-art and dark photography. At the time in 2009 I was inspired by a view photographers: Ben Willmore and Eric Curry. They showed me a photography technique where you car create unique imagery. I was hooked and needed to try. Check out one of the tutorials by Eric Curry on car light painting. Painting With Light : T- Bird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN2VY5xWGp4 As a Photographer and also Graphic Designer I always want to create unique images. Combining these two disciplines was perfect for me. And so I started to do al lot of Car Photography. Some of the other inspiration at that time came from a great Automotive Photographer: Tim Wallace. His view on automotive photography is just pure Car Art.Editing
This shot consists of around 20 to 30, 3-5 second exposures. In each of these exposures a different part of the shot is lit. I combine these shots in Photoshop by layering them on top of each other. When you then set the blending mode of every layer to lighten, only the parts of the exposures that contain light are visible. That way you see everything you lit together. From this point you can brush away what you don't like or what should not be there in the shot (like the icelight itself). After some finetuning I ended up with this.In my camera bag
My most used equipment now consists of: Nikon D850 24-70 2.8 Tamron circular polarizer filter Tripod remote ( for multiple handsfree shots ) LED Icelight Speedlight Diffuser panel (soft lighting)Feedback
Just go out there, try, fail, try again, and you will build your own style of unique imagery.