RyusLightworks

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Miner coming out of a tunnel to greet the light.
Everything created just with light in a single long exposure using 180° camera rotation, no photosho

White flower on a tree captured with dew on it still.

Once upon a time, an innocent peasant girl got lost in the forest. She wandered half the night until she finally came across a derelict shrine for the

From a shooting with the squad of a local fire station. Created using real fire from a burning wick ribbon. No photo manipulation involved.

Photo created at a local monument. Everything created just with light in a single long exposure, no photoshop involved.

A lone sailboat stranded on low tide on the German mudflats of the north sea.

The ghosts of old train drivers watch over the tracks.

Everything created just with light in a single long exposure, no photo edit involved.

A sunset over the beach of the north sea. The tide is low so the mudflats are also visible.

Diorama Lightpainting scene inspired by Stranger Things.

Everything created just with light in a single long exposure, no photo edit involved.

Old sieve in an abandoned mine building.

Macro shot of a small rusty nail in an abandoned wooden fence.

A huge steam generator inside the building of an abandoned mine.

In a magical ritual the witch from the Ilbes-Hill enchants the stones surrounding her. Since then these stones have to be known to confuse any compass

These dikes were used to claim land from the mud flats of the north sea. Now that the mud flats are protected they still show part of the history of t

Lightpanting orb next to a lone tree in the fields.

Everything created just with light in a single long exposure, no photo edit involved.

Lit the rapeseed field with a warm white flashlight in a long exposure at night to bring out the colors more.

A little lightpainting shooting at a local park with some altar like rocks. Used two tripods and a lens swap mid exposure to create a fire cloud above

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One single bird standing by the ocean. Ironically, my bird's eye view. by TrishParsons

COPPICE LANTERN A crevasse gouging the sleep of forest floor, Illuminates dew on changing foliage, Isolation in the beauty of colour awakes from dawn, Like open arms in pray to their gods above, After taking some images in a series of cascades nearby, o by mattbishopphotography

One of my pandemic photoshoots by EstellePhoto

Triptic Selfportrait
Repting like swimming
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Highlight of a dance

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And she's dancing like she's never danced before

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She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

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SONY ILCE-7M2

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ISO 100 Shutter 75/1

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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken on a small table in my living room. I used a few lightpainting techniques and a cutout to create this scene. Lightpainting art is a passion I have been following several years now. The most fascinating aspect of this art is that it combines reality with fantasy and thus brings a speck of magic into our mundane world.

Time

After several rainy and stormy days and still wanting to create something I decided to design and create this scene one evening. The cutout was made during the afternoon and while it was getting dark outside the setup was created.

Lighting

Any light in this scene was artificially created like it is often the case in lightpainting photos. Two flashlights were used here, one was modified for high CRI output and the other was modified with a self created firmware to get a super fast strobe mode to create the rain effect.

Equipment

This shot was done with a Sony A7II on a tripod with a Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens. Other equipment used were two self modified flashlights, a cardboard cutout, a sheet of mirror foil, an electric cigarette for the smoke and a black fiber optic brush for the rain.

Inspiration

The inspiration for this shot came from an effect I discovered using a black fiber optic brush and a super fast strobe mode. I recently started to build my own flashlights and created a firmware for the controller that goes beyond what normal flashlights are capable of. When moving black fiber optics with a high frequency strobe of around 50Hz the camera sees the ends of the fiber optics as dots and thus creating the rain of light effect. Having watched a few 80s movies recently this scene from Flashdance came to my mind because it was a great scene to use this effect.

Editing

Like any lightpainting there is near to no post-processing involved. Apart from developing the raw file by adjusting white balance, brightness and contrast a bit what you see here is what came out of the camera.

In my camera bag

My bag contains, apart from the camera and a few lenses a multitude of odd lights. I usually use wide angle lenses but sometimes a focal length of up to 80mm can be useful too. Apart from this a tripod is a must. Most of the times there is a selection of around 5-6 flashlights in my bag each for a different purpose. Using 3d printer technology I also created several light forming tools to create different effects in a shot.

Feedback

The key to create lightpainting photos is your own imagination. The camera is a tool that captures light, so anything that can be lit or can emmit or reflect light can cause amazing effects in a long exposure. You usually start in a dark environment with camera set to base ISO and the aperture closed down halfway to get as little stray light as possible. Using a bulb exposure you decide yourself what will appear on the photo and what not. You can for example light a scene to get it on the sensor, then place a person at several spots inside this scene and light that person. The person will end up as a ghost in the final photo because the light hitting the person and the light hitting the environment will overlap. But the only limit is your imagination. When showing this shot so someone most people are first fooled into believing there was a real model involved. but the lady you see is actually a 10cm tall cardboard cutout placed on a table on top of a mirror foil. A puff of vape from an electric cigarette and a short burst of light from a blue geled flashlight created the smoke in the background. To emphasise the silhouette the cutout was lit from the side at a steep angle so only the border of the cardboard caught the light. Finally the rain effect was created by using a black fiber optic brush like you might know from lamps back in the 80s fixed to a flashlight with a very high frequency strobe mode. Getting the speed of movement is key to create the rain effect.

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In my camera bag

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She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
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Everything created just with light in a s...
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