The Pixel Stick...It uses 200 LED's, so it's got to be good!

So what is Pixelstick? I asked that question at the PhotoPlus Expo and learned a lot about lighting 'painting' on photos. One way to do that is via a Pixelstick. A Pixelstick consists of 200 full color RGB LEDs inside a long and narrow lightweight aluminum housing. There's a controller mounted on the PixelStick that reads images from an SD card and displays them, one vertical line at a time, on the LEDs. The imagines on the SD card can be ones you created or downloaded. Each LED corresponds to a pixel in the image. Load your SD card up with full color, high fidelity images and watch pixelstick transform your long exposures into an entirely different photo. All you need for lightpainting is Pixelstick and a camera with a long exposure mode! The folks at PixelStick say that the beauty of lightpainting is that there's no wrong way to do it. They certainly had a lot of folks interested in this creature technique. They were looking for $110,000 on Kickstarter. They ended their project with 2,105 backers and a total of $608,726. On their website are three short videos which will help you understand the whole lightpainting process. If you just want to watch one quick video, here are some lightpainting results, obviously from people who really know what they're doing!

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/78163959

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Company website: http://www.thepixelstick.com/

See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/1543