#Surreal #Landscapes Lit By #Drones: 24 #Photographs By #ReubenWu
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Photographer Reuben Wu’s ‘Thin Places’ Combines Creativity, Drones, and the Fujifilm GFX100RF https://petapixel.com/2025/03/21/photographer-reuben-wus-thin-places-combines-creativity-drones-and-the-fujifilm-gfx100rf/ #Fujifilmgfx100rf #mediumformat #Inspiration #Interviews #nightscape #thinplaces #Spotlight #interview #landscape #loxnuctis #fujifilm #reubenwu #drone #siren
Lasers, Meteors, and Aurora Come Together in Ethereal Photo Series https://petapixel.com/2024/11/22/lasers-meteors-and-aurora-come-together-in-ethereal-photo-series/ #northernlights #meteorshower #Inspiration #Interviews #Spotlight #interview #spotlight #lighting #reubenwu #perseid #aurora #drone
‘Wild Eye’ Magazine’s Debut Issue Demonstrates Commitment to Conservation and Nature Photography https://petapixel.com/2024/11/07/wild-eye-magazines-debut-issue-demonstrates-commitment-to-conservation-and-nature-photography/ #outdoorphotographer #naturephotography #wildeyemagazine #conservation #Inspiration #paulnicklen #anseladams #erinbabnik #Spotlight #landscape #Websites #magazine #reubenwu #wildeye #nature
Artist: Rueben Wu https://reubenwu.com/home
Fourteenth Century Sky (2022)
Fourteenth Century Sky explores the concept of our existence at the exact point where the future becomes the past. Moving from imagination to memory, we are all somewhere in between.
Fun Fact: Reuben is a former og member of the band #Ladytron
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Light-Space Modulator (Aeroglyph AE1460)
Aeroglyphs are a new form of Land Art that leaves the environment unscathed & aims to leave zero trace. Glyphs hover in the air like beacons. They feel simultaneously ancient & futuristic, mythic & surreal, dreamed & remembered.
Artist: Rueben Wu https://reubenwu.com/home
Fun Fact: Reuben is a former og member of the band #Ladytron
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This Landscape Art Uses AR Projection to Show Beams of Light
Photographer Reuben Wu has released the final chapter of his groundbreaking Lux Noctis project, which involves lighting large-scale landscapes with drone-mounted lights. Titled "An Electric Storm," the digital artwork has an incredible physical installation that combines a print with AR light projection.
Wu has been working on this series since 2016, and his photos of halos above rock pinnacles have gone viral across the world.
"Conceived in 2016, this groundbreaking landscape photography project draws inspiration from chiaroscuro painting, planetary exploration, and science fiction," Wu states. "Images from the series have been featured in National Geographic , Time and Wired , and the printed compendium is part of the permanent collection at the Guggenheim, MoMA and Met museums."
"An Electric Storm" is a newly remastered digital artwork that shows a mountain being illuminated by beams of light from the sky. Digitally, it's viewed in video/animation form (make sure you enable the background music for the full experience):
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The individual frames that went into this artwork were captured by mounting a powerful light to a drone and flighting it vertically above various parts of the rocky mountain.
"Bright geometric lines, a recurring motif in this series, flicker and arc in tension with the oblique textures of the darkened landscape," Wu writes about this piece. "This narrative is further enhanced by sonic and musical elements to create a looping sequence which is neither photo nor video, but something in between."
The physical fine art print installation uses a carefully calibrated projector for AR projection mapping. Here's what the artwork looks like in real life -- it comes to life with the push of a button:
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"There has always been a physical component to my work in the form of fine art prints - I make all my own prints, and they are all very limited edition high value pieces," Wu says. "Once framed and hung, they are simply the best way to experience my images.
"However, my work also incorporates motion, video and animation (and these are pieces I have released as NFTs) and are not possible to showcase as a print. The existing method of wall-mounted screens do show motion but are inherently bulky and heavy that don’t look good when switched off.
"What I’ve been working on is merging the physical presence of prints with the digital of the NFT so that even when the motion is inactive, the piece still functions as a piece of physical wall art."
"An Electric Storm" was minted as an NFT, and today Wu auctioned it at Foundation, where it fetched 25 ETH (worth about $55,500 at current crypto prices). Wu's 3 NFT auctions on Foundation have now netted 30 ETH, 23.88 ETH, and 25 ETH, respectively.
You can find more of Wu's work on his website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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This Audiovisual Art was Made Entirely with Light Painting
Photographer Reuben Wu is best known for his pioneering outdoor light-painting projects, including lighting nighttime landscapes using LED-laden drones. Now he's back with a new series called EX STASIS that's a collection of four timelapse/motion audiovisual pieces created entirely with light-painting.
You can watch the 4 pieces one after another in the 1.5-minute video above.
"[The pieces] speak to my ecstatic experience of creation; a unique feeling which excites and motivates me to keep creating and exploring in the field of photography and visual art," Wu tells PetaPixel. "A development from my Lux Noctis (drone light) project, this series focuses more on the intimate landscape, using practical in-camera lighting effects to interact with the immediate surroundings.
"As it gets dark, my surroundings cease to be an exterior experience and become a subliminal space, and that’s when I feel most connected and aware of my sense of being."
Wu says that he's been working for the past couple of years on marrying his pioneering still photography light painting work (e.g. painting halos above peaks and drawing floating symbols into landscapes) with the motion/video work he has been experimenting with.
"I was also looking at alternative methods of illumination which did not involve a drone," Wu says. "I needed much more control, and less of an intrusive experience that is typical of drones."
After testing out different methods, Wu decided to use a 200-LED light stick that can be programmed to create custom shapes and colors. Those light shapes are then captured in camera (by Wu or an assistant), both as stills and as videos.
A still frame from EX STASIS I. A still frame from EX STASIS II. A still frame from EX STASIS III. A still frame from EX STASIS IV.
"Various methods were used to capture these pieces: stills, time-lapse, and real-time video, all combined to weave a narrative which is photographic in capture but imaginative and fictional in story," Wu says. "This dynamic terrestrial chiaroscuro synchronizes with my sound design and music to form singular looping pieces which draw the viewer in."
Wu is releasing EX STATIS as an NFT collection through Nifty Gateway, in case you're interested in collecting his art digitally. You can also find more of his work on his website, Twitter, and Instagram.
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Reuben Wu's science fiction landscape art https://boingboing.net/2018/03/21/reuben-wus-science-fiction-l.html #photography #reubenwu #Post
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