From the BUTTERPAPER series - No. 6 - lightpainting on paper, studiowork shot straight out of camera without PS. Get it as print: https:--www.lightwriting.de-shop #lightpainting #butterpaper #lightart #lightwriting #longexposure #getyourprint #nops #lpw
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At my studio. The setup was not that difficult as it´s actually an empty aquarium placed on a glastabel.Time
Shot at daytime in an entirely darkened room.Lighting
The lighting is coming from handheld torches that had colorgels in orange and red on the lamp. The glastable was essential to light the setup inside the box from underneath. What you see is an entire roll of butterpaper (30m!) unrolled, placed vertical inside the aquarium which was about 30 cm x40 cm and 30 cm high, so the paper was staying static and the torches were just moving by hand from underneath. The butterpaper is semitransparent, kinda milky and pics up the light with reflections perfectly.Equipment
This shot was taken with a Canon 7D on tripod with a birdview extension arm and with the remote control I was shooting on bulp mode, so I had enough time to work on the color reflections on the paper.Inspiration
I tumbled upon an artwork of a roll of paper on Pinterest which caught my attention and then tried a couple of test with regular paper, but none of it popped up like the picture I had in mind. Somewhen I tumbled upon the butterpaper roll at the supermarket and knew instantly that this was the missing link.Editing
No - the picture is shot straight out of camera, no editing at all.In my camera bag
Today I shoot with a Canon 5D Mk IV with a variety of lenses from fishey over 35mm, 50mm to 100mm macro lens and some random tele lenses, depending on the project. As I mostly shoot lightpainting pictures,I always have a remote control with me, a couple of torches with different adapters, color-tubes, led-sticks and lots of DIY lighting gear. Since I started with lightpainting in 2003, you can imagine that the amount of lights, torches and additional materials such as fiberglas brushes and acrylic blades continuously expanded.Feedback
Get some butterpaper on roll, if you have a small (Din A4 size) empty aquarium just unroll the paper and do this already in the box - also a drawer without bottomplate does the same - put the setup on a glass table and mount your camera from above pointing down on the lower third of the setup, by this you can avoid that the lightrays of the torch are popping up directly in the lens. Then take a simple torch with a color gel of your choice and you are ready to shoot. Ideally use a remote control and set the camera on bulp mode, a macro lens or short distance lens makes the best as your camera is about 30-40cm away from the upper part of the paper - it may take a couple of tries to get a breathtaking result, but it´s definetly worth to give it a try. Use a setting of F5,6 with 100 Iso and try out different exposure lengths, normally something between 30sec up to a minute are enough to reproduce such an image. Good luck!
