Saturday night was Light Painting night with Andy and it was a new location for us which was a small tunnel near Torside reservoir at the other side of Glossop. It's a great place but quite slippery so we had to be really careful moving around in the dark! I wanted to create the appearance of 2 tunnels in the one exposure so to do this I set up my camera with a fisheye lens positioned so the tunnel was running up the side of the frame, Andy was stood further up the tunnel in pitch darkness, I then opened the shutter and moved up the tunnel behind him and spun the wire wool to create the sparks which lit up the brickwork and silhouetted Andy. After the spin we were plunged back into darkness so I went back to my camera and fitted the lens cap while leaving the shutter open, I could now reposition the camera so the tunnel ran up the opposite side of the frame (worked out previously) reload the wire wool ready for the second spin. All I had to do then was switch off my head torch remove the lens cap and go up behind Andy again and spin the wire wool, back down to the camera and close the shutter, job done in one exposure.(Olympus EM-1 mkii Samyang 7.5mm fisheye 4 secs Live Composite over 5.5 minutes f/5.6 @ 7.5mm )

Photographer: Stephen Elliott