To give you more details about how these pictures are created, we’ll refer to the photographer’s website where he describes his project: “It is the result of several years of research on long-exposure photography. While some are acquired in one single exposure, most are composed by the process of overlaying bits of light paintings from several pictures. Apart from making use of digital masking and color and contrast adjustments, the result is conceived from real action with fireworks, a performance that shifts between spontaneity and control.” More info: Instagram | linktr.ee When I switched from analog to digital photography in 2006, during a period I lived in Montreal, I started experimenting with long exposure on my own. Discovering the possibility of creating images with ghosts and traces of light, I began playing with the techniques and identifying with the results, increasingly relating them to the drawing and ideas I wanted to represent, more than just recording the world as it presents itself.” My landscape photography has always been linked to this relationship of reverence towards Mother Nature and our smallness and audacity in front of her, the rebellious children that we are. When I have the opportunity, I seek to draw connections between our thoughts and our actions in the natural environment, but in a subtle, poetic way, focusing on the beautiful rather than the shocking to bring about positive changes.” Trees became my main subject, but not my only one, for drawing contours and extensions of natural lines with sparks of fire during long exposures, a technique known as Light Painting. When lighting the trees, I try to draw attention to an energy that the tree and other living beings possess, which is pulsating, but also invisible to the common eye. I want to convey a sense of wonder and mystery for the natural world, which is sometimes confused with the supernatural.” When I produce them in Brazil, I usually choose places that are humid or close to water, or at least that don’t have dense forest that can easily catch fire. In Spain, where I have lived since 2017, the sparks that I find for sale are of much lower power, so this risk is reduced, but also the effects that I achieved with the trees that I portrayed in Brazil are not the same. So here, I adapted the project to another type of light painting, using wooden plates with laser-cut slots, which I suspend with a tripod in the environment I want to portray. The results of this adaptation were part of the Sacred Geometry project”. Another challenge I face is to renew myself and develop other techniques derived from those I have already used, so as not to stagnate doing the same thing over and over again. In 2016, I tried light painting with water for the first time, and this year, 2024, I am returning to this idea, combining it with sparks in a new project, currently under development.” Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Please use high-res photos without watermarks Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB.
