Live welding arc photography
Live welding arc photography
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Hello Experts,
A bit off topic. I need to know how to take pictures of a live welding arc similar to the picture attached.This is for my marketing team.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards
A bit off topic. I need to know how to take pictures of a live welding arc similar to the picture attached.This is for my marketing team.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards





RE: Live welding arc photography
But I've seen some really neat photography and videos taken that show the arc and metal puddle quite distinctly in a video. Some of these I believe are taken with a standard video camera (e.g. Go-Pro) arranged to shoot through a welder's glass, others are taken with specialty cameras with "high dynamic range" i.e. a lot of turn-down on the sensitivity of the digital CMOS photo sensors.
www.weldingtipsandtricks.com has a lot of said videos, you might try contacting the owner and asking him.
RE: Live welding arc photography
You have to have a camera that will take raw files, and then you have to be able to adjust all intensity/color/contrast settings in post processing.
I would just play with filters and see what you can get. Maybe something not quite as dark as a welders lens. And also consider gold plated (to keep out heat) and a combination of blue and gray filters so that the color comes out better.
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RE: Live welding arc photography
Use a moderately long lens (at least 100mm focal length) with f2.8 so that you can get the light range you need. The longer lens will put you farther away from the weld spatter. Use a tripod.
Will take some trial and error but with digital photography, not a big deal.
Agree with btb....I have never seen welding that clean with no spatter at all!
RE: Live welding arc photography
Thank you all. A good starting point for me.
Best Regards
RE: Live welding arc photography
Dik
RE: Live welding arc photography
Does anyone have a FLIR One smartphone camera attachment that allows some thermal imaging? It's a relatively inexpensive device (less than $300 CAN). I was thinking of picking one up, but, wanted to hear from someone that had one before I do.
Dik
RE: Live welding arc photography
Thank you for the suggestions. Its one more option to try after the easier ones.
Best Regards
RE: Live welding arc photography
Expensive? Likely. Certainly more than a welders helmet and standard camera, but I don't know the cost and value of your advertising production.
RE: Live welding arc photography
Dik
RE: Live welding arc photography
This is how I do it, with varying results (and without any post-processing), but you can add a line with a button to the cam to act as a remote control, so you can take as many pics as you want. Usually I get about 30-40% usable pics.
The fixed shade lenses cost nothing, you'll have to change them anyway depending on the welding current.
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RE: Live welding arc photography
I have one of the IR attachments for my iPhone. Was a birthday present from my son! It works pretty well. I compared it to my higher resolution $20k FLIR camera and found it to be pretty good!