Flight Sculptures and AeroGlyphs
Reading the latest BMFA News today ( Feb 2024 pp32 ), I was surprised to see an article on "Using Models to Make Art" by Chris Bradbury. He has made some amazing images of radio controlled planes, helicopters and drones flying at night, illuminated by LEDs. I found some of his work online at the following link: https://www.behance.net/gallery/11879703/200ft-High-Light-Sculptures This immediately reminded me of something we did for fireworks night back in 2018. We called it " Drone Fireworks ". Our method used a micro drone which we filmed using video and then used a software post processing stage to split the video into images and do something called "image stacking", where all the individual frames are composited together into a single image. The result, as you can see, is definitely a piece of art. In Chris's article, he uses a different method, choosing to make the images with a camera using a 30 second exposure. His images are stunning, and include
