In the fall of 2009 Japanese television station, OHK, featured us on their 6 o’clock news program. Our story ran for 6 and a half minutes during their popular Super News program. The filming for the segment covered 2 days. The first shoot was a night shoot where we did a demonstration of many of the techniques and tools we use. The shoot included a light painting portrait of the news anchorman. The second shoot was during the set up for the exhibition we did in the fall at MaiMai. Fiz-iks on the news! from tdub303 on Vimeo.
Kousanji Temple, located on a small island in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, was the location of our most recent shoot. They were kind enough to give us exclusive access to the property at night. The buildings are listed as Important National Cultural Assets by the government and many of these buildings house national treasures. To be given access to such a location was an honor. Construction on the temple began before World War ll and took over 30 years to complete. It was built by Reverend Kosanji Koso out of gratitude for his deceased mother. It is a massive complex that includes several different styles of architecture and even includes a very modern and very large marble mountain of a park. The images shown here are illuminated by...
Lomokev of Flickr and Lomography fame, invited Trevor to contribute two chapters to his new book. One chapter was light painting and the other was capturing star trails. The book is listed on with the American title available at amazon.com and the British title available at amazon.co.uk. The book will feature over 20 of our images. The book is a collection of 52 creative photography techniques and covers a huge variety ideas. The chapter on light painting offers a basic how-to and then details some tools and ideas on how to use them. The chapter on capturing star trails covers three different methods including film, single exposures, and stacking. Both chapters also offers advice for location and foreground lighting. It is bound...
Graphica and Fiz-iks have joined forces in hopes to produce some top class art. After a stopping by our exhibition in November, we agreed to a meeting at the Graphica office. Surprised by the fact that we create our images by hand with a variety of light sources and did not use and software, the owner offer us unlimited support. He expressed a wish to create a series of images in early 2010 that could be exhibited later in the year at a large gallery. The company currently imports professional audio and lighting equipment, offers programming for these devices, and also produces there own line of equipment under the name Versia. ANY_CHARACTER_HERE Our second meeting was at the showroom and stage which gave us a good look at the lights...
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