![]() No need to wonder if you’ll be able to pull it off later in software. You can see everything you’ve captured already. Want to see how the shoot is going? Just walk to the back of the camera. Whether you shoot for fun or shoot for results, pixelstick keeps you behind the camera more and fiddling in software afterwards less. There are a few key differences between using pixelstick and trying to mimic the visuals in Photoshop or After Effects, and those differences account for much of the value in choosing to take the practical path. Whether by taking advantage of pixelstick’s 1/4-20″ Rear Channel or simply by using a superclamp, people all over the world are getting even more out of their pixelstick by sticking it on things. We used it again in the below shot, which allowed us to get massively long and tall rainbow arcs that were easy to see even perched on a roof across the street.Įxtending is just one technique. We were able to get such a large and smooth rainbow by clamping pixelstick to the end of a 12′ painter’s pole and pivoting at the corner, where the wall meets the ground. If you look closely, in some of the frames you can see someone standing under the arc of the rainbow, giving a sense of scale. You may recognize this shot from our original video. Since our very first prototype we’ve been bolting, clamping, and otherwise attaching pixelstick to as many things as we could to get the best, most interesting results possible. One of the often overlooked features of pixelstick is how well it lends itself to creative mounting. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on Octoby pixelstick. This one is a comp of 3 shots because the lights were on and we couldn’t find the breakers. Similar to the skull ribbon, a pixellated ghost ribbon over an alley puddle. Vampire Lips just signed a 5 year lease for a lovely warehouse space on the second floor.įun Fact: In addition to being extremely unsettling, these teeth were the cover art for the 1983 Swans album Filth. This skull ribbon is a simple pixellated skull that we drew in photoshop and then repeated a bunch of times. Got a lot of mileage out of the roof, obviously. The original artwork had some compression artifacts, otherwise we love this shot, especially how the image is sort of a penninsula in the sense that it has no hard edge on three sides, so it’s good to lay directly against the surface (or as close as you can get.) Luckily, building management doesn’t lock the door of the roof. We framed this without knowing what artwork we were going to put there, simply because the frame was too good to pass up. In the right context, even simple eyes look scary rather than just scared. Download the image pack by clicking here – it’s chock full of brand new spooky bitmaps. Photo by Simon Bond.Happy Halloween everyone! We shot in and around the pixelstick office, which as you can see is already relatively scary looking before we added various unsettling elements with pixelstick. Using a flash to brighten your scene and subject can help create otherworldly images. Avoid over cluttering the whole frame with light patterns. The light painting needs to form either a leading line into the frame, or a focus point in the frame. Preplan the direction of the light painting, and think about the shapes you wish to create.ģ. That might mean heading to a beach, or into the forest.Ģ. This will make the effect of the light painting stronger. We started off with with a creative photo session in the daylight, then finished the evening trying out the Pixelstick.ġ. I met up with photographers Simon Bond and Matt Brandon to see what all the noise was about. TechCrunch claims, “It will take your long exposure photography to the next level.” Kickstart Your Creativity ![]() Wired Magazine says, “A radiant apparatus designed for the Age of Instagram.” Popular Photography calls it, “The most impressive light painting tool we’ve ever seen.” The Pixelstick turns night photography into a creativity lab where the sky is your petri dish. But by night, it’s a tool that helps photographers create otherworldly images. In the daylight, it looks like nothing more than a 73″ (187cm) black bar and LED strip and a handle. One of the latest technological trends transforming the world of light painting photography is something called the Pixel Stick by Bit Banger. Some more popular light painting techniques include using a flashlight, sparkler, steel wool, LED lights, or even the lit face of a cell phone or tablet. Just set your camera up for a long exposure. Although there are many techniques, the process is simple. ![]() Light painting is an excellent way to get creative with night photography.
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