Light Painting
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yes i agree, i would like to know a little more too....
To paraphrase the meme: Long exposure is long...
From the star trails some of those shutter times are several minutes long. Not something you can do with a compact camera. Others, e.g. the one with 6 silhouettes, may be stacked.
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Ok sorry a bout that, I'll try to explain a bit about it all. All of the images are taken in complete darkness. You need a camera with a long exposure setting, preferably 'bulb' ie the shutter stays open as long as you want it to.
You set up the camera on a tripod with a remote shutter release cable and once your ready you open the shutter and add light how and where you want.
The 'orbs' are made with a set of battery operated xmas lights. You put a marker on the floor and start spinning your lights vertically over your marker whilst making little side steps around your marker.
The silhouettes are simply pinging your flash against a wall in order to leave you silhouetted.
The sparks are produced by tying wire wool to a wire and setting fire to it and then spinning it to get the sparks you require.
None of the pics are stacked they were all taken in one long continuous exposure with a lot of running around.
You should never appear in the picture as you are constantly moving and will only appear if lit up.
There are lots of different techniques to this and you are really only limited by your imagination.
I'm by no means an expert in this, but I do really enjoy it, once you start it becomes addictive!
You set up the camera on a tripod with a remote shutter release cable and once your ready you open the shutter and add light how and where you want.
The 'orbs' are made with a set of battery operated xmas lights. You put a marker on the floor and start spinning your lights vertically over your marker whilst making little side steps around your marker.
The silhouettes are simply pinging your flash against a wall in order to leave you silhouetted.
The sparks are produced by tying wire wool to a wire and setting fire to it and then spinning it to get the sparks you require.
None of the pics are stacked they were all taken in one long continuous exposure with a lot of running around.
You should never appear in the picture as you are constantly moving and will only appear if lit up.
There are lots of different techniques to this and you are really only limited by your imagination.
I'm by no means an expert in this, but I do really enjoy it, once you start it becomes addictive!
I was wondering how that was done. Fireworks was my first thought, but quickly realised that wouldn't be safe. I've seen similar done with battery angle grinders, but realised the centre space was too big to be that.
Wasn't sure as the castle seemed to have a halo similar to when you do HDR.
The halo if I remember right was from running it through Artizen 'natural' plugin on photoshop to pop the colours out. Purple on the flash was the purple wrapper from Quality Street chocolatey nutty thing sellotaped to the flash head, the red on another one was from a cherry liqueur :banana: So its all a bit heath robinson.
If you want to know more about this nip to Flickr Lightjunkies group, You will see some amazing pictures there and lots of tutorials as well :Clap:
Flickr: Light Junkies
Flickr: Light Junkies
I know different people have different concept of art but these are bloody brilliant!
You have anymore mate?
can you do wider things? Like scenes and not objects?
You have anymore mate?
can you do wider things? Like scenes and not objects?
You can do anything you want, people, cars, scenery etc etc You are only limited by your imagination. You can use torches, led lights, glow sticks, fire, gas lighters, wire wool anything that will give off light.
Each picture can take 5 or so minutes and it could be that you might only get one good picture out of a couple of hours work, but that picture will warm the cockles of your heart!
Each picture can take 5 or so minutes and it could be that you might only get one good picture out of a couple of hours work, but that picture will warm the cockles of your heart!
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