"My coldest Winter"

2013 was the real beginning of my lightpainting journey.

After being introduced to it in late 2011, I wasted a lot of time because I had no camera. I had to manage to borrow one. Same for the tripod. I had no basics in photography so I had to experiment by making a lot of mistakes, on my own. This was the hard way but, at the end, it was the way I needed to do it.

In 2016, I entered infrared photography. This forced me to learn really how to use a camera and it boosted my lightpainting creations a lot.

The early years were very productive as I was doing at least 80 LP free sessions per year but, when the pace decreased a bit, quality improved and things became easier and easier.
At that time, I was looking for public recognition and I wanted to increase my production.
Now I took the opposite path, leaving the galleries/exhibitions world to focus on travels and meetings.

This shot was selected in 2013 for the 2nd LPWA's Light Painting World Exhibition which took part in the Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris, FRANCE. It was my first exhibition of that kind, with pictures showed on big LED screens. This was my first picture selected by LPWA back then.

Lightpainting created in real time, captured to the camera in one single photographic frame.

No layers /no Photoshop / no editing exept minor adjustments (lens correction profite, WB, contrast (+12)) and addition of my logo.

Gear :
Canon EOS 600D body
Sigma 12-24mm F4.5-5.6 II DG HSM lens
Canon RC-E6 IR remote
Camlink TPCARBON24 tripod

Settings :
177s
13mm
f/7.1
100 ISO

March 2013

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