

Venice during Carnival is a most amazing, magical, experience, with spectacular photography opportunities around every corner. Perhaps the most interesting of these images are the set of “fire” images-we were very excited to apply the fire effects with the Venice Carnival costumers!
#PIXELSTICK ON A LIGHT STAND DOWNLOAD#
Pixelstick supplies a set of default graphic images built-in, with a number of other pre-formatted images available for download from their website. You can feed literally any image into the Pixelstick, and then “paint” the image into a dark scene by waving the Pixelstick through the scene. The intensity, and color of each of 200 lights is controlled through a timed application of a bitmap image-sort of like a flatbed scanner in reverse. A handle is configured such that the “stick” can spin around the handle, allowing for interesting light painting effects.

The assembled Pixelstick is 73″ long with 200 LED lights arranged along its length. The Pixelstick is a linear array of LED lights in a hand holdable, spinning, configuration. For now, I’d like to introduce you to the Pixelstick! I had been planing to create some images using the amazing Pixelstick, a very cool, programable light painting device, and Venice Carnival was the perfect setting for creative play! You can see more about the Fujifilm GFX in my previous blog post here. While we were on our photo tour of Venice Carnival, Bobbi Lane and I had a great opportunity to test out a prototype of Fujifilm’s new medium format camera, the GFX. Pixelstick meet Fujifilm… now lets create!
