But with the right kind of forethought and planning items like the PixelStick is certainly one way to help you stand out.The first thing that I always evaluate when I tackle a product like this-especially one with no real competition-is build quality.īeing first to market, the first model produced by Bitbanger Labs, I hoped this wouldn’t be a “yeah it’s great but it broke in one week” sort of product. Using something just for the sake of using it has a really good chance of actually detracting from your photos. Though with that I will say we’ll use these only when it makes sense for a project. There’s a lot of possibilities out there with these. Overall I’m happy that we invested in a couple of PixelSticks.
So pre-planning and testing is highly recommended if you want to use one of these on a project. But I would say this is a good start for not only ourselves but for others to consider what images they may want to use when it comes to light painting and how to adjust them in order to get the best effect. There could be more testing done especially when considering what kind of results we might get if the aperture was stopped down further than f/4.
Going through these tests was a really good exercise. Here I would say that if you had a very specific use case to where you would take the brightness below 25% you should make sure your images will not come out looking weird. So you will typically get green and sometimes white depending on the image. At 5% brightness the LEDs don’t have enough power to render all the colors correctly. Though this test did show my hunch was correct. There are watermarks so people can’t use us as an avenue to get something for free but you should at least get a good idea of what we were starting out with.
So we did purchase some images from her to use for this test. There is an artist on DeviantArt by the name of Anna Mary Marian who did some fantastic recreations of the background art. Actually trying to find screencaps proved difficult but I found another source that in my opinion was better. Since we’re all fans of Sailor Moon I thought that trying to find backgrounds from the transformation scenes would be a good starting point. I had some ideas on how I could possibly make adjustments to the images to make them work but first I needed some test examples. Working With Images To Find Good Combinations But while testing along with some things observed during the shoot I pondered if there could be more done to prepare the images to get the best output from the PixelSticks. Initially I figured that utilizing the Brightness adjustment would solve for this. The kind that makes you go GOOD GOD THAT’S ABSOLUTELY BLINDING WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU. Have you ever been driving at night and you drive by a place that has one of those LED signs that are able to show multi-color images? Where you can tell the image has been tuned so be clearly visible during the day… but would be way too much for a night time display. The first thing I noticed: holy shit is this thing bright. Once they arrived I knew I was going to have to do some initial testing so I could get some understanding of how it works, what I would need to do for images, etc. I already had some various projects in mind but when the Super Crown project ended up on an accelerated schedule we thought there could be some neat way we could apply it to that project. I had done some experimenting at home with various tools but I knew there was one I wanted to get my hands on: the PixelStick. Note: if you enjoy our work or find any information we share helpful please consider supporting our activities via Tip Jar! Some First Steps With the PixelStickĪs mentioned in the accompanying article with our Super Crown set one area we’ve been wanting to explore with our work has been with light painting and what we could do with it.
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