Light Painting Photos of Rock Climbers Wearing Glow Sticks
What do you get when you combine rock climbers, glow sticks, and
long-exposure photographs? Answer: some pretty neat light painting
pictures.
St. Paul, Minnesota-based photographer and rock climbing enthusiast Matt Holland
was able to experiment with rock-climbing light-painting photography
recently when he went climbing at night with a group of friends in
Jasper, Arkansas.
All the climbers were decked out with red headlamps and bright
chemical glow sticks. The glow sticks were of the bracelet/necklace
variety, so they were worn on arms, legs, helmets, harnesses, and shoes.
The headlamps helped illuminate the rock face while the glow sticks
added colorful light trails showing the climbs.
Holland was using a Canon 7D and a 15-85mm EF-S lens, “wide open at
f/3.5 and zoomed out”. To capture the exposures, he used a cheapo Canon
cable intervalometer as his remote shutter release, and used bulb mode
to start exposures when the climbs began and stop them when the climbers
reached the top.
Exposure times for full climb photos ranged from around three minutes to around five minutes.
Here are a few of the resulting light painting photographs from the climbs:
Holland tells us he was inspired to send in these photographs after seeing our post earlier this week on photographers who dropped glow sticks into waterfalls as a light painting experiment. You can find more of Holland’s photographs from the light-painting climbing session here.
Image credits: Photographs by Matt Holland
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