I had the pleasure of attending an Olympus UK Events workshop at Chislehurst Caves, on the 19th October 2010.
We wandered into the Caves and were each given an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II with M.Zuiko Digital 12-40mm PRO Lens, and were shown how to drive the “Live Composite” feature.
As someone who light paints in one shot or by multiple exposures, this was really different for me. In short, you set you camera up, focus, then hit the shutter. The camera takes a 2 second “noise reduction” frame, and it’s then primed to start… Hit the shutter again, start painting, and you can see the image appearing on the screen in real time, bit by bit. It took me a while to get my head round this, as I’m so accustomed to painting, then running round back to the camera to see what I’ve got.
Thanks OlympusUK Events for putting on this workshop, as it not only provided the opportunity to try a new camera, but also meant I had the chance to recreate an image I had in mind “Soldier Ghosts Marching Home“. Though I had to resort to using my own Canon 70D, as I’m familiar with it. Read this post “The story behind my Favourite Light Painting image” to see the image and how it evolved
Some of these shots are me simply driving the camera, and other’s me painting.
