Light Painting on of these Iconic trees in the National Park
In the past two blog posts I showed you some of what I created when visiting Joshua Tree National Park, but I haven't featured an actual Joshua Tree. But all along, I thought I must also feature at least one of those iconic trees. So here we go.
In den letzten beiden Blogbeiträgen habe ich euch einige meiner Kreationen aus dem Joshua Tree Nationalpark gezeigt, aber keinen echten Joshua Tree. Ich dachte mir aber schon immer, dass ich auch mindestens einen dieser ikonischen Bäume zeigen muss. Also los geht’s.
Challenge 1 - find the right spot for the night.
The best location scouting is of course during the day. We drove around and looked for a representative tree in the right setting. When we came across the Hidden Valley I saw that tree from the street. With the rock formation behind it, I quickly qualified for my later Light Painting on the way out of the National Park.
Die beste Locationsuche ist natürlich tagsüber. Wir fuhren herum und suchten nach einem repräsentativen Baum in der passenden Umgebung. Als wir das Hidden Valley erreichten, sah ich diesen Baum von der Straße aus. Mit der Felsformation dahinter qualifizierte ich mich schnell für mein späteres Light Painting am Ausgang des Nationalparks.
Challenge 2 - waiting for the sun to set
Patience is not exactly my strong suit. But hey that location was worth it. we found a good spot for a picnic and as soon as we were in full-on blue hour I just started taking test images.
Geduld ist nicht gerade meine Stärke. Aber hey, hier hat Ort hat sich gelohnt. Wir fanden einen guten Platz für ein Picknick und sobald die blaue Stunde richtig angebrochen war, begann ich einfach, Testbilder zu machen.
Sunset galore!
Challenge 3 - Setup & Composition
This time I was not exactly on top of my game but I found one angle that was satisfying my vision. after some trial and error, I found a spot to see the rock formation and the tree in a nice complimenting line.
Diesmal hats bisschen gedauert, aber dann ich fand einen Winkel, der meiner Vision/Idee entsprach. Nach einigem Herumprobieren fand ich eine Stelle, von der aus ich die Felsformation und den Baum gut passten.
Since I was all alone here, lighting up this location was once again not possible. To come up with complicated installations or concepts was just not in the cards.
This is a relatively short 60-second long single exposure where I stepped to the side and lit the tree for a bit and then also some light to the rock in the background. The camera was set to ISO 100 and the lens to F4 at 24mm focal length.
That was it. simple and quick.
Da ich ganz allein hier war, war es wieder einmal nicht möglich, diesen Ort aufwendig auszuleuchten. Aufwendige Installationen oder Konzepte waren einfach nicht drin.
Dies Bild is also eine relativ kurze, 60 Sekunden lange Einzelbelichtung, bei der ich zur Seite trat und den Baum kurz beleuchtete und dann noch den Felsen im Hintergrund anleuchtete. Die Kamera war auf ISO 100 und das Objektiv auf F4 bei 24 mm Brennweite eingestellt.
Das war's. Einfach und schnell.
Bonus Image - Camera Rotation
Since the Camera was already on my rotation rig; why not spin it a few times and see what comes of it? Find the right CenterPoint and go again.
In one of the shots a car passed and gave me some extra light effects. After some shots, I knew exactly where to step and run, so I had my path optimized and internalized. That way I got faster and faster. So the shots you see here should actually be twice as long as the first image plus the rotation of the rig. Since I got faster I also ended up with a similar timing. This Light Painting shot is a 64-second long single exposure. I did have to change the lens to my Laowa 12mm F2.8 to get the composition into the frame twice.
See the image below: there is a plane coming from LA flying over the park in both parts of the image. Love it!
Da die Kamera bereits auf meinem Rotationsgerät war, warum sie nicht ein paar Mal drehen und sehen, was dabei herauskommt? Den richtigen Mittelpunkt finden und von vorne beginnen.
In einer der Aufnahmen fuhr gerade ein Auto vorbei und gab mir so noch extra Licht. Nach ein paar Aufnahmen wusste ich genau, wohin ich treten und laufen musste, also hatte ich meinen Weg optimiert und verinnerlicht. So wurde ich immer schneller. Diese Aufnahme sollte also fast doppelt lang sein wie das erste Bild, inklusive der Rotation des Rigs. Da ich aber schneller wurde erreichte ich ein ähnliches Timing wie beim ersten Bild. Diese Aufnahme ist eine 64 Sekunden lange Einzelbelichtung. Ich habe das Objektiv gegen mein Laowa 12mm F2.8 ausgetauscht, um sie zweimal aufzunehmen.
Siehe das Bild unten: In beiden Bildteilen fliegt ein Flugzeug aus L.A. über den Park. Sehr cool!
EXPLAINED
Camera Rotation is what?
As I have shared with you in many of my posts about Camera Rotation. Yes, it is just what the name suggests. The camera is being rotated during the exposure, sometimes in steps sometimes in a continuous motion while doing so I also light up the scene.
Prinzip Kamera Rotation Light Painting?
Wie in einigen meiner Posts beschrieben ist Kamera Rotations Fotografie genau was der Name schon meint. Die Kamera wird einfach während der Belichtung gedreht und dabei wird das Subjekt ausgeleuchtet.
When you are now interested in this specific niche photography technique, there is an article on my website and here on Hive as a blog post.
Link below:
Neugierig? Interesse an Kamera Rotationen, dann schaut euch meinen Beitrag als Inspiration an. Den Artikel gibt es auf meiner Website und natürlich hier auf Hive als Beitrag. Link unten.
Please find your inspirational Camera Rotation images published here on my website and here on Hive as a blog post.
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The outcome looks great, so well done! Just a little note: I had a look at your engagement and I see there's room for improvement. You're not engaging much, which is a shame as you could get more followers to your blog. I hope you will consider being more active.
Yes, you are absolutely right. If you also see my post frequency went down the past year. The reasons are manifold. In part it's because iam somewhat shy on commenting but more so was the issue of time. I had a bit of a rough work load and a rough patch also privately in the past 2-3 years. That resulted first in less time for content creation (could not collaborate often as i hoped) and then later even more stressful time resulted in me having less time for engaging. I wanted also to put in more time for the @lightpainters community but that's hopefully about to change. Hardest times are now in the past and I want to be more creative and do more artwork and I expect to have more time again for interacting with the community. Thanx for pointing it out so clear. That means a lot to me and shows me that it was all worth while sticking to the hive community. A little hey man you voice is valued feels great. Cheers to the hive and of course you right here. Thanx!
I'm really sorry to hear about you going through some rough times. Unfortunately this happens to all of us, but good thing it's behind you.
I'm sure you'll find some time to drop a comment or two here and there, when you're reading some post. It's not easy to come back, I know, but this is an amazing community and you'll do well. You have no reason to be shy here, trust me :)
Yes, iam super motivated since i see a summer with much more freedom to explore new projects is ahead. And the entire cryptoverse with Hive and all that is calling me.
Thank you so much. Your comments and encouragement are very much appreciated.
Great, great Post and amazing Shots
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🎉🎉🥳 Congratulations 🥳🎊🎊
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keep up the good work
interesting way to create a fake reflection , thank you for sharing the set up details.
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