About this limited edition photograph:

The light painted photograph “Fallfire” was created in my garage in Decorah, Iowa.

To create this light painted photograph I placed my Canon T3i camera on a tripod and I used a long exposure of 170 seconds. I found an oak branch earlier in the day while hiking which I brought home and clamped into the vice in my garage. I created the faux fire effect by standing behind the branch and I waved a red LED glow stick around, covering every square inch of the frame with red tracers of light. Fast and random whipping motions allowed me to create the appearance of flames. The first attempts did not look anything like fire, but persistence paid off and eventually I had achieved the look that I was after. It was a challenge to cover every square inch of the frame in light as I had to pay close attention to my spacial memory so that I didn’t leave any gaps where there wasn’t any light.

This photograph came off my camera as-is, and involved zero post-processing or Photoshop.

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