Light + Slitscan 002

Upon my first attempt, I got rid of 2 filters in front of the LED light to see if I could capture much visible light movements.  

Light + Slitscan 001

This experiment was my first attempt to merge slitscan and light painting techniques.

In that sense, I followed the same procedure as my previous Mr. Roboto experiment, yet, this time with  a LED light box (with a blue filter)  on a black shiny form board.  

>Clip. 1  Original

>Clip. 2  Center slitscan, traveling down to up (2-pixel each frame)

>Clip. 3  Center slitscan, traveling right to left  (2-pixel each frame)

>Clip. 4  Cadence  slitscan, traveling left to right (2-pixel each frame)

>Clip. 5  Cadence  slitscan, traveling right to left  (2-pixel each frame)

>Clip. 6  Cadence slitscan , traveling down to up (2-pixel each frame)

Consequently, I was not able to capture much of its light motion, probably because of the LED light inside was rather invisible, due to the fact that the 2 filters (a transparent blue and half-transparent milky white) were set in front of it. 

Presentation 001: Opening Video

Utilizing a long lens of my DSLR and by shifting its focus, I video captured the car head lights alternating their shapes and colors. 

Traffic Light Painting

Light painting is a photographic technique, that can be achieved by a moving light source and a slow-shatter speed. By moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera, the images captured under  a slow shatter speed shows a trail of light movements, and  create artful luminous motion as photographic images or motion pictures.  It is said that Man Ray was the first known art photographer, who had explored the idea of this technique in his works, namely Space Writing.  

As I have some experiences in trying out this technique with flash lights and an Ipod (with PENKI application), I decided to capture long exposure images of night traffic this time. As extra experiments, I also captured short exposure images of car head lights. 

Long exposure: 

Img 1. ISO400/ f 22/ s20

Img 2. ISO400/ f 22/ s10

Short exposure:
Img 3. ISO400/ f 5.8/ s1.3

Img 4. ISO400/ f 13/ s1/250

Img 5. ISO400/ f 5.8/ s1/50