# Light Painting Portrait session on the dining table

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<p>Translucent Place - 
Sometimes we hide away from our worries, yet we long for someone to reach out and help. 

Light Painting Session with Queen DIDI. Amazing lawyer-by-day model for the night. Thank you for this relaxed session. This pose was certainly not a huge sports effort.

The last set of images that were created during our first shooting.</p>
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<p>Lichtiger Ort -
Manchmal verstecken wir uns vor unseren Sorgen, aber wir sehnen uns danach, dass jemand die Hand ausstreckt und hilft.
Light Painting Session mit Königin DIDI. Erstaunliches Model für den Tag als Anwalt für die Nacht. Vielen Dank für diese entspannte Sitzung. Diese Pose war sicherlich keine große sportliche Anstrengung.

Die letzten Bilder, die bei unserem ersten Shooting entstanden sind.</p>
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## What were the settings for the featured image?

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<p>What you see here is a Camera Rotation Light Painting with a single 56 loooooong exposure time. The camera was always set to ISO 100 and the Laowa Zero D 12mm F2.8 lens was set to F22. Otherwise the background would not stay so black.</p>
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<p>Was Ihr hier als Light Painting seht is eine Kamera-Rotation Einzel-Aufnahme mit 56 Sekunden Belichtungszeit. Die Kamera war auf ISO 100 und das Laowa Zero D 12mm F2.8 Linse war auf F22. Sonst würde der Hintergrund nicht so schwarz bleiben.</p>
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**Step 1**

At first, Didi was getting comfortable on the table and we covered her with a very translucent piece of silk. The idea entails a few little twists. First was the light placed in front and back of Didi to get the silhouette properly showing.
But there is a tiny trick once moving to step 2.

Also very important was to find the right setting so only the model will get enough light. So let's have a few testing rounds. .... In the end I needed to crank up the aperture to F22 if the background is not supposed to show up.

To place the light I used the common scanner I always use, walking behind her lighting in the direction of the camera. You may have seen it a few times.
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**Schritt 1**

Zuerst machte es sich Didi auf dem Tisch bequem und wir bedeckten sie mit einem sehr durchscheinenden Stück Seide. Die Idee bringt ein paar kleine Feinheiten mit sich. Zuerst wurde das Licht vor und hinter Didi platziert, um die Silhouette richtig zur Geltung zu bringen. Aber da ist mehr im Schritt 2.

Damit nur das Modell wirklich Licht abbekommt musste ich erstmal verschiedene Einstellungen testen. .... Am Ende musste ich die Blende auf F22 zudrehen, wenn der Hintergrund nicht sichtbar sein sollte.

Mit einem einfachen Scanner bin ich hinter ihr entlang gegangen und in richtung Kamera geleuchtet.
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https://gunnarheilmann.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/LightPainting-GunnarHeilmann-Scanner-1.jpg

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<p>I used the scanner on the left to shine some light over her body before adding the fiber optic brush for additional features.</p>
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<p>Ich benutzte den Scanner ganz links, für ihren Körper, bevor ich die  zusätzliche effecte mit der Fiber Brush hinzufügte.</p>
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## The light and ready for rotation

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**Step 2**

Once I had the settings figured out I was ready to repeat the process twice within one exposure and rotate the Camera in between. 

But there was one more little thing/trick to make her shine properly through for the main image. To make her a bit more visible I removed the silk after the first round and lit her directly without the silk. This way we do get more of her skin to show.</p>
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**Schritt 2**

Sobald ich die Einstellungen gefunden hatte, war ich bereit, den Vorgang zweimal innerhalb einer Belichtung zu wiederholen und zwischendurch noch die Kamera zu drehen. Aber es gab noch eine Kleinigkeit, um sie für das Hauptbild richtig durchscheinen zu lassen, habe ich die Seide nach jeweils der ersten Runde entfernt und sie direkt ohne Seide eingeleuchtet. Auf diese Weise können wir mehr von ihrer Haut zeigen.</p>
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<p>Camera Rotation is what? 

As I have shared with you in many of my posts about Camera Rotation. Yes, it is just what the name suggests. The camera is being rotated during the exposure, sometimes in steps sometimes in a continuous motion while doing so I also light up the scene. 
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<p>Prinzip Kamera Rotation Light Painting?

Wie in einigen meiner Posts beschrieben ist Kamera Rotations Fotografie genau was der Name schon meint. Die Kamera wird einfach während der Belichtung gedreht und dabei wird das Subjekt ausgeleuchtet. 
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<p>When interested in this specific niche photography technique, there is an article on my website and here on Hive as a blog post. 

Link below:
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<p>Neugierig? Interesse an Kamera Rotationen, dann schaut euch meinen Beitrag als Inspiration an. Den Artikel gibt es auf meiner Website und natürlich hier auf Hive als Beitrag. Link unten.</p>
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Please find your inspirational Camera Rotation images [published here on my website](https://gunnarheilmann.com/camera-rotation/) and here on [Hive as a blog post.](https://hive.blog/photofeed/@gunnarheilmann/camera-rotation-photography-and-light) 



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I hope you found these images inspirational. If you have more questions please do not hesitate. I am happy to share my knowledge.

If you think this is Spam, why did you read this far and why the fuck bother? Move on from your self-righteous mind state and bury yourself. Don't bother about what others may find interesting. Just stay in your bubble and ...

All there is left to say is Cheer Up!


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Since I am one of the co-founders of the [LightPainters](https://hive.blog/@lightpainters) project, I also help and support the Light Painting community as a curator - not only on the Hive.
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How to delegate?
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All the Hive Power will help to upvote the artist's contribution as part of the LightPainters community.

If you feel like light painting could be interesting for you, feel free to check out this crazy bunch at LightPainters on Hive: @lichtkunstfoto, @stepko, @ryuslightworks, @marlasinger666, @lightandlense, @fastchrisuk @fadetoblack, @maxpateau, @lightstabeu, @yo-hoho, @oddballgraphics, @lacelight, @martbarras, @candelart & @rod.evans.visual
I am super happy that more and more find their way here into the hive.

Thank you so much!
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