![]() The newbie-light-painter-me used to look at shots and dissect them and try to figure out how they were done. These are all things I had purist notions on when I started light painting, and the use of art via projector, tablet, or programmable LED strips is another one that fits that bill. I’ve learned that some people enjoy the process of creating what they can in a camera even if that means using advanced features in modern cameras that didn’t exist twenty or ten or two years ago (live composite anyone?). And I’ve learned that straight-out-of-camera can be extremely satisfying but that’s not how most people in the scene roll. What I’ve learned in my time is that light painting should not use any post-processing, except when it’s kind of okay. I’m not one of history’s original light painters I’ve been at this just over four years now. The longer I create light paintings, the more I seem to have opinions about light painting. If we are using these last three light tools then we are now also actually using art as a light source! These last three devices project an existing image, and that image is usually going to be a texture of some sort, a photograph of some sort, or a design. A few years ago, we were more limited but now we also have access to digital projectors, tablets, and tools like the Pixelstick. We create art and sometimes we capture the art of others in our art because it’s where we are or it’s what we seek out.Īnd our lights… we use flashlights, for sure, but then we use so much more! We use tubes and acrylic and reflective foil and mirrors and fiber optics and the internal structure of wine glasses. Stained glass windows, sculptures in a park, crazy fashion shows, these are some of the things we capture. We have a reaction to graffiti on an alley wall. As humans, we are drawn to things that speak to us as humans and, for whatever reason divine or otherwise, we, as humans, enjoy art. Where am I Going With This?Īny shot that’s not taken purely in nature (and taken OF nature) is going to capture something made by humans, be it clothing, roads, architecture. ![]() It turns out that photographers, and even more so light painters, can use art in both elements: subject and light source. This stuff is all obvious, I know, but bear with me. We’re a little special in this regard because of how we manipulate the time dimension of what we capture. Again, this is true for conventional photographers as well as light painters. Something happened at some place and we were there to capture it. ![]() In our world we add more light, and from such a variety of sources!Īs photographers, we are documenters of existence and time. We also still have “captured light” but for us this extends past the ambient light of a scene, past the strobes of traditional studio photographers. The same subject can be in the image multiple times, there might be multiple subjects captured via capping the lens, or even all the above. We still have some type of subject but that subject can change over the course of a shot. A shot has some type of subject as well as one or more light sources that illuminate the subject.Īs light painting photographers, we extend this a little further. Sometimes we shoot pictures of places, sometimes people or animals, sometimes we take pictures of things. Even the worst of possible shots, the inside of a lens cap, is still a picture of the inside of a lens cap. The pixelstick splash screen should appear as normal and you can see a revised version number in the bottom right corner.The art of photography involves taking pictures of something. The message should now read "LOADING." for a short time, and then "UPDATE COMPLETE, PLEASE RESET". ![]() The screen will be titled "Pixelstick updater v1.0" and display the message "Firmware Found, Press fire to update." If the message reads "No Firmware Found" then turn off the pixelstick, eject the SD card and check on your computer that the firmware files are saved correctly to the root of the SD card. Hold down the LEFT and RIGHT keys on the directional keypad and turn pixelstick ON. Making sure pixelstick is OFF, insert your SD card. Copy both files to the main folder your SD Card.
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