Got my hands on any Light Painter’s bucket list, the PixelStick.
Put simply, it allows you to paint bitmap images, from and SD card, in thin air!
Since I’m borrowing this thing, my first outing was a simple cut to the chase, using some pre-prepared images from ThePixelstick.com.
I’d already had the image in my head, of characters and maybe a Tardis beneath the Millenium Clock in the centre of my home town, Tunbridge Wells.
Not as easy as I thought it would be though. It’s not just about the image on the card, it’s about timing, pace, brightness settings.
My son and I set up the camera and tripod and set about wafting the stick, left to right, in front of the camera. When photographing the Storm Trooper, go too slow and he was too wide, too fast, and too thin.
Then it was Tardis time. However, I didn’t realise the converter tool on the thepixelstick.com site converts PNG file transparency to white! So lesson learned is ensure transparent areas of your image, must be black, as obviously, black = no light!
Here’s the result of the Millenium Clock outing.
Following the first outing, I thought I’d see if I could PixelStick an Aston Martin DB5 on the road.
The challenge here is how to paint the image at the right scale and at the right angle! Kept me busy for a while, over the Christmas break. Here’s the result..
I’ll be back with more images and tips, once I’ve got the hang of it 🙂