f/8, ISO 200, Approximately 25 second exposure
Michael Durr, @instadurr, and FPV drone racer Paul Nurkkala, @nurkfpv, wanted to create a light painted scene in camera.
To achieve this Michael had a Canon 5D MarkIV set to bulb with a trigger he set to hold at the start of the scene. He then popped a Godox AD400 flash on Paul posing. After the flash, Paul walked over to The Pixel Stick and painted the fireball while Michael took the flash head off the stand and walked behind the camera. Once Paul finished painting the fireball he then flew a Tiny Whoop drone through the scene and Michael popped the flash again at the appropriate location to illuminate the drone. After that, Michael walked back to the camera and closed the shutter. We were very happy with how the two of us were able to achieve this scene in one frame.
Check out the BTS video below. We shot this video on an iPhone with the lights on so you could see how we made our moves. The final image was captured in complete darkness.
This was the image captured in the BTS video with the lights on. This shows how accurately we had this choreographed.
