Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Light Painting”
On New Year’s Eve I put together a quick 2017-2018 light painting image. Here’s a quick run down of how it came together. The Scene It’s cold here in south-east Michigan, so I didn’t want to go too far in temperatures around -15degC, so my backyard it was. The original plan was to use the trees as part of the …
A few nights ago I sat in my basement staring at my cache of light painting tools trying to figure out what to do. I messed around with a few torches with filters but nothing was quite turning out the way I wanted. Then came my go to for fun – the $2 battery powered LED string. As light painting …
In the 2nd Episode of the Light Painting Session Files I’m back in the basement with a couple of light painting tools and my Micro 4/3rds camera, the Olympus OM-D E-M10. Now is a good time to note the error of my ways – using the Olympus E-M10 for long exposure. I bought this camera for travel as is was …
This is my first light painting session in a while. I moved to greater Detroit a few months ago and I am finally set-up to do more light painting so I plan on adding video of as many of the the sessions as possible so subscribe to the website for updates. I was not really happy with the results and I …
After playing with a pendulum and a two point harmonograph for light painting I had a crazy idea that I wanted to try making a spirograph to give me absolute control over the pattern I was making. So off I went into a CAD design package to start designing a simple sun and planet gear arrangement driven by a geared …
In this video by Sifu, Pala Teth takes us behind the scenes on a light painting shoot. Pala used torches to fill the background but the real star of the picture is the fireworks that were shot off at various creating light trails that bounced off the roof, walls and floor of an old warehouse they were shooting in. A fantastic result and …
For some reason the summer months in the northern hemisphere also seem to result in less light painting images on Flickr. I guess it is the shorter nights leaving less time to get out and light paint. In any event I still found a some top quality light painting images on Flickr I felt it was worth sharing to inspire you …
In a previous article and video I showed you how I hacked an LED night light to make it more useful for light painting. Here are some images using that night light for light painting where it created a cloud like background. The RGB functionality and soft filter of the night light allowed me to make it a funky rainbow …
I am a little bit behind on posting the galleries of inspirational light painting images I find on Flickr. Here is what I found back in June.
Here are some fantastic light painting images I found on Flickr in May.
