Swimming Pool - Light Painting Part Three

Here is the link to the first part

Here is the link to the second part

The third part is about camera rotation. At the end of last year I received a tool tip from @lichtkunstfoto. Which I really wanted to test. I show the result below.

First I worked with a carbon fiber 360 degree panoramic gimbal from Neewer, which is designed to hold over 13kg. I bought this gimbal for my first camera rotations. Nowadays I rarely use the item because it is simply too big for my backpack. The scaling is given in 10° increments, which is not particularly helpful for rotations in 45° increments.

Since I swapped the CANON 6DII for a NIKON Z5, the gimbal had to be readjusted first. This happened quite quickly in the kitchen facing the tiled wall.

Then I start a test recording. I illuminated the edge of the swimming pool with the NOCTIGON DM11. Like last time, the surrounding area was illuminated from the neighboring property. First I tested a 180° rotation. As you can see in the picture above, not exactly straight, but sufficient for my purposes.

Next, I adjusted the gimbal to 30° and rotated the camera in 90° increments. I covered the lens with a black cloth while rotating. The result already looked promising, so I repeated the rotation in 60° steps.

Well, since I already recorded a 60° rotation, I immediately added a 30° rotation. That was a bit too much for my taste. So I decided to realize my idea for the cover image with a 60° rotation. To do this, I selected orange on the Rollei LUMIS I-Light RGB and positioned the lamp on the edge of the swimming pool. Then I started the camera rotation 270° with the lens open to draw the orange line. I then covered the lens with the black cloth, removed the orange lamp from the set and started the 60° rotation as described above. So the cover photo was in the can.

Now there was the new tool that I really wanted to test. It is a Z & V platform from Alyn Wallace offered by the company "Move Shoot Move" for 40 US$. It is small and light and fits in any pocket. The whole thing was assembled and adjusted in the kitchen again, as shown in the picture below. Whatever you can see, the scale division here is also very questionable. For both the Z & V platform and the gimbal, it makes sense to attach a digital inclinometer to the camera.

In the picture below you can see that camera rotation is basically possible with a Z & V platform. But the whole thing is very unstable and wobbly. This means that light trails blur during rotation.

I hope you enjoyed the post. This will be the last part of the swimming pool light painting for now. But we are still staying in Brazil. I'll report on it next week. So stay tuned!