Pixelstick Wallpaper Repository
There’s nothing quite like a brand spankin’ new, high-res wallpaper. Below are some of our favorites, often in 2K or 4K res.
View Article25 of our favorite pixelstick GIFs
One of the things we were most excited about when building pixelstick was the idea of stitching multiple lightpainted long exposures into animations. It’s something we hadn’t really seen done before...
View ArticleTaking pixelstick for a spin
When we first began shooting with pixelstick and feeling out new techniques, we were excited to try spinning pixelstick like a propellor to see how it looked. As usual, pixelstick delivered, and we...
View ArticleTune up your car photography with pixelstick.
When we began shooting with the early pixelstick prototype, it was apparent we were on to something pretty interesting. But as cool as the stuff we were getting was, we were even more excited to see...
View ArticleExpo, expo, read all about it
We’re fresh off pixelstick’s first big tradeshow event, the PDN Photplus Expo in Manhattan, which is one of the larger and more exciting photography related events on the east coast. We spent much of...
View ArticleThe Fine Art of the Portrait
They say there’s nothing new under the sun (or nihil sub sole novum for you classic types) and everything has been done before. They’re probably right, but that’s never stopped people from trying....
View ArticleI, Wedding Photography, take you, pixelstick…
Though we love pixelsticking for the sheer fun of it, numerous working photographers have found pixelstick to be a welcome companion on professional shoots. The pro uses run the gamut from fully...
View ArticleAbstract art in thin air.
Much of the impetus behind creative photography comes from the desire to capture fleeting moments. Whether the subject is people, places or simply light, we as photographers want to evoke feeling –...
View ArticleAnimating with Pixelstick #1
Animating with pixelstick is both fun and rewarding, and there are a million ways to do it. Over the next few weeks we’ll visit some of the most common methods and walk you through how we ourselves do...
View ArticleAchieving photorealistic effects in-camera with pixelstick
Pixelstick is a versatile tool that can serve many roles in a shooter’s setup, but one of the things that truly sets it apart from other photo lights is its ability to read and display photorealistic...
View ArticleGuest post: Working with a half pixelstick
Pixelstick’s size is one of its best features. Creating photoreal images at 6ft tall has yielded some of the most impactful shots we’ve seen. But sometimes circumstances call for something a bit more...
View ArticlePixelstick meets SpiroJib
We’re always interested in the various ways people go about getting the most out of their equipment. Skilled lightpainter, tool-builder, and all-around pleasant guy John Griffin had his eye on...
View ArticleReblog: Colorkey Case Study
(Note: the below was translated from the original German, a blog post from EyeLoveYou, a creative agency in Basel, Switzerland.) The campaign to find the look for the Colourkey Leisure Card began with...
View ArticleNew Image Packs: Fish and Animals
The warmer weather lured us out to shoot a few new image packs in Prospect Park last night. We decided we wanted to shoot some animal life, but thought that rather than go for hyper-realism, it might...
View ArticleUpon further reflection…
There are a few key differences between using pixelstick and trying to mimic the visuals in Photoshop or After Effects, and those differences account for much of the value in choosing to take the...
View ArticleAnimating with Pixelstick #2
In our second animation tutorial we’ll be exploring how to animate a single image moving through a scene by incrementally advancing pixelstick along a pre-determined path and taking a new exposure at...
View ArticleMounts and Mountability
One of the often overlooked features of pixelstick is how well it lends itself to creative mounting. Since our very first prototype we’ve been bolting, clamping, and otherwise attaching pixelstick to...
View ArticleThe Invention of Holopainting
Every once and a while an art project comes along for which the scope and ambition alone are worth the time it takes to execute. Students at the University of Applied Science St. Pölten in Austria...
View ArticleSmartphone Wallpaper!
We were fortunate enough to have a booth at the PhotoPlus Expo at Manhattan last week, which gave us the opportunity to set up an area to show off what pixelstick can do. In between demoing with booth...
View ArticleHalloween by Pixelstick
Happy Halloween everyone! We shot in and around the pixelstick office, which as you can see is already relatively scary looking before we added various unsettling elements with pixelstick. Download the...
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