You can create different looks of a stick with milkglass filters, colorfilters and by the setting of your picture (borderless with black background or fullframe picture touching the edges of the image). Bright fine concrete floors can create a beautyfull reflection, as well as water/ rain does.ħ. The surrounding might pick up the light too. Ducktape or chalk is a good helper to leave marks on the floor.Ħ. Again, think about speed, body-movement and clear in- and outpoints which you can repeat in the darkness. A good animation takes much more time than a single lightpainting shot.
You can use a pixelstick for single pictures, but also for generating stopmotion animations. typography can be very powerfull for lightpainting and it leaves you creative freedom of what you want to say.ĥ. Have a clear concept idea in mind before you start. The speed of yourself walking threw the picture directly affects the proportions of the pixelstick generated image.Ĥ. Depending on your movements and walkingpaths, you can create completly different results from the same picture.ģ. You can use this for leaving a complete image in the picture-setting or you just use it as an abstract pattern generator. It also allows ongoing repetition of a file or just a single playback. The pixelstick works like a scanner, blasting out one line of a picture after the other. It´s also a good help to take a snapshot with your mobile device from the thumbnail-overview of the SD-card, so you will know exactly which picture is selected on the stick later on.Ģ. Name your files propperly so you know later on which picture shows up in the darkness. This might take a while before you can start with the real action. Be aware that a pixelstick includes computer work upfront. There is also a port compatible with remote camera triggers (Canon C1) for wireless shooting.1. Throughout testing we’ve used Sanyo Eneloop and Amazon rechargeable to great success, never requiring more than one set for a long night’s shooting” and “The handbox not only allows you to select which image to load, but controls brightness, tint, firing speed, vertical flip, and left/right direction.
Yet as high-tech as the device is in its design and construction, in the end the “Pixelstick uses 8 AA batteries. The entire unit is matte black, rendering it virtually invisible to long exposures. “
A rotating sleeve sits over the handle and can be locked tight when not in use, or loosened allowing Pixelstick to spin freely. Over many designs we found that the perpendicular handle allowed for the most natural movement for both linear striping and more organic, abstract movements. Its creators learned a great deal while testing various configurations and design details, resulting in a highly refined final product: “The handle is perpendicular and has a secondary aluminum sleeve. The images themselves can be from 1 to 198 pixels tall and many thousands of pixels wide. Each LED corresponds to a single pixel in the image. Pixelstick’s brain, a small mounted box, reads images from an SD card and displays them, one line at a time.
Here is an overview of its key features and technical specifications: “Pixelstick consists of 198 full color RGB LEDs inside a lightweight aluminum housing.
Taking this one step further, Pixelstick can increment through a series of images over multiple exposures, opening up light painting to the world of timelapse, and allowing for animations the likes of which have never before seen.” Here is how it works: “Pixelstick reads images created in Photoshop (or the image editor of your choice) and displays them one line at a time, creating endless possibilities for abstract and/or photorealistic art.