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Fire Wings Light Painting Captured on Smartphone

Apr 27, 2015 by Udi Tirosh 3 Comments

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Smartphones are not naturally meant for light painting. Mostly because they (mostly) have small sensors that do not handle long exposures well, and accumulate noise like a TV set on a dead channel.

The engineering team at Huawei came up with a clever concept to overcome that limitation and they handle light painting in a very similar way to how astro-photographers capture the night skies, by stacking many images together. But where sky photographers stack many 30 seconds shots to create several hours’ worth of exposure, the Huawei P8 does it on a seconds scale.

To demonstrate the concept, Huawei commissioned photographer Benjamin Von Wong (previously) to shoot a light painted angle with fire wings.

Ben was restricted by three simple rules:

  1. You must use the phone’s Light-Painting function
  2. The model must be surrounded by fire
  3. Absolutely no photoshop allowed

Having worked with Ben on fire before, I know that he does use photoshop to enhance location imperfections or dull fire. So Ben was a bit worried:

In the best of conditions, fire is one of the most challenging elements to capture. Not only is it dangerous, its luminosity varies with time. Long exposures result in motion blur, and the high contrast between subject and flames typically means that an amazing camera with a large dynamic range is necessary

Ben did get the shot but it was not a trivial setup. The final shot was taken using some ND filters and an overhead Broncolor strobe, so while the photo was done 100%  in camera smartphone, it was not a cheap one produce.

fire-wings

You can read the entire experience over at Medium where Ben shares his entire process.

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Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: Benjamin Von Wong, Fire, Huawei P8, light painting, smartphone photography

Udi Tirosh: from diyphotography.net

About Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

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