![]() In case you haven’t, the Pixelstick received over 6 times it’s kickstarter funding goal in 2013. ![]() I think that unless you have not had anything to do with lightpainting – you will have heard of the Pixelstick. Just need to find the right location now….Īuthor Diane Seddon ARPS AFIAP CPAGB BPE3* - D Seddon Photography Posted on MaCategories Art, camera, computers, damage, Fuji X-T3, image making, Lightwaves, Lincolnshire, photography, Pixelstick, Thoughts 4 Comments on Painting the Night Light Painting Talks ![]() Not a long process, but finding the right things turns out to be a bit tricky. Creating images to use takes some time, as images have to be a certain orientation, size and converted to BMP. So here I am, back in the garden trying to renew my acquaintance with the Pixelstick.įingers crossed we can get out some more in the coming weeks. Previously of course work has been done in clubrooms, or (disastrously) in a car park. We have been practicing in the back garden now for a week or so. The website is still there, but it’s not been updated for years. Sadly the company that made them, seems to have vanished. The camera sensor sees the pattern or picture that you programme into the machine via an SD card. You are able to programme the lights to play in a set order, so that when the stick is moved in front of the camera, they play very much in the same way you would print a picture – one line at a time. What the tool is, is a set of 200 LED lights arranged in a long stick. In the meantime – I realised that though I’d used this tool many times at camera clubs up and down the county, I couldn’t remember when I’d last used it just for me… so with the nights still getting dark fairly early, I decided that I’d get myself a new wireless trigger, and at the very least go and play in the garden. The colleague and friend whom I was with took it home with him, and effected a temporary repair, and though I knew these things were not being manufactured any more, I was lucky to obtain a replacement from a chap down in Kent.Ī friend of mine who lives in Surrey, collected it for me, and duly delivered it up here a few months later. Needless to say, it just stopped working – I was a bit upset……. Bits of plastic and glass exploded around me, and the memory card I was using skated away. We all took lots of images, and during the course of the session I sadly dropped my Pixelstick tool smack on the hard tarmac of a car park. Last Autumn I ran a light painting night at a camera club in Lincolnshire. ![]() We’ve said it all, or we’ve photographed it all, and in the end analysis, three, just works……. This whole sense of it is its completeness, an end to a list, a finish. (and the answer of course is always 42!)Īnd that’s the important bit, the ‘good, bad and ugly’ of it all, we’ll just have to ‘eat, drink and be merry’. You can’t stop half way through, there’s no meaning. Of course, that’s not always the case… in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, there’s the great question about ‘Life, the Universe, and Everything’. Two words send you in one direction, and the third breaks it. With a tricolon you can set up a pattern and then break it… ‘Lies, damned lies, and statistics’ is a good example. Think of these “Wine, Women and Song”, “Veni Vidi, Vici”, “Eat Drink and be Merry”. Two elements get you going in one direction, but the third introduces something unexpected. It can be a good device for humour… for example “Three ……… walk into a bar”. (A series of three words, phrases or sentences that are parallel in structure, length and/or rhythm.) not so with three, not always.Īdd another word and it becomes in English Language a Tricolon. You can always, ALWAYS, connect two dots with a straight line…. Think big and small, one is dominant, and one isn’t. (See I used three examples there – so much more comfortable to read eh?)Įven if there isn’t an immediate connection we can find something that links them – Pride and Prejudice Death in Venice Heart of Darkness (three examples again)… so even if we can’t find a connection in the words, our brain fills in the relevant gaps. When people see two things written together, you can usually see a connection – for example solid and liquid, left and right, up and down. I ask myself sometimes why is two of anything boring, but three much more fun? It’s one of only 9 single digits (discounting 0) – but is it a designers dream? Does it drive photography, design and literature? Three is the magic number – or so the song would have us believe.
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