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Want to light paint like we did here?
It’s easy! Here’s what you need:
- A camera that can do long exposures, or has a “bulb” mode. You can do this with a camera that does 10-30 second long exposures as well. Any DSLR will do this, and a lot of point-and-shoot cameras will have a manual or “shutter priority” mode.
- A tripod, or a way to lock your camera down.
- Lights! Flashlights, LED lights, anything – these will be your “brushes”
- A dark room, or nighttime
- If you want to be super fancy, a camera flash (or just another camera that has a flash!
The idea behind light painting is that if you open the shutter, you can draw lines by moving the flashlight around in front of the lens. So hold the shutter open, get in front, and try drawing something in the air. If you have a camera flash, you can have someone stand in place, and flash them. Then have them hold still and draw around them. Experiment!
Some tips:
- If it’s not pitch black, cover the lens between moments when you’re drawing. That way you don’t accidentally overexpose your frame.
- Point the lights at the camera, but not necessarily directly at the lens – doing that might blow out the frame and get unwanted flares.
- If you don’t have a flash, you can light things up by moving the flashlight beam slowly over the entirety of what you’re trying to light. The longer you shine a light at a certain area, the brighter it’ll be in the final image
- Set your aperture to as high as it goes, and your ISO to as low as it goes. This’ll minimize ambient light from the environment.
- If you’re doing painting, wear dark clothing so that you don’t show up in the final shot.
I still don’t understand this, I would giantly appreciate a video tutorial!
awesome vid man, keep up the good work!!
Cool idea! I’m so gonna try this!
Very nice, thank you.
Thanks man for the great tutorial! I set it to 15 seconds just enough to do a test circle and it was really cool. I want to try that on a busy street corner and let the exposure be set to a long amount of time. Thanks once again.
I FEEL SO STUPID AND LEFT OUT FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THIS :/
unless respect for this work!
Thanks for the tut man. Totally understandable unless you got rocks for brains. In that case, I’d take up flower arrangement.
Nice tutorial, Freddie. Can you teach us how to do the effects in the Matrix?
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This is wicked.
Tip for everyone who doesn’t understand the exposure:
-The camera you are using must have a long shutter setting, Google your camera with a tag like “exposure” “bulb”. mine was this: “Canon 780 SD IS long exposure shot”
Would a flip camcorder work?
Cool stuff:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27526442@N08/2559945438/sizes/l/in/set-72157605487204014/
This was done a while back (2008). I photoshopped it a bit, but all the light around the guy’s body is authentic.
This isn’t mine, but I thought I’d recommend it to you all. Great stuff!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twincitiesbrightest/
aaa i can find bulb mode on my camera its a olympus FE-4000 i can change my ISO to 100 which is lowest but i can’t find bulb mode. heeeeeeeeelp!
I dont understand this.its too confusing and you should consider making a tutorial please. This look fun.
hey awesome video yet again.
http://francepantsdance.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d20kwq3
and
http://francepantsdance.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2l5mih
hey!
gracias amigo, muy buena explicacion
tengo un tarea de publicidad y he de intentar hacerlo con este tipo de trabajo
fabuloso!!
Awesome, allready tried some things with my camera like, cool lightning shots, or try to write my name. But i didn’t realise these possibilities, this is really cool. Planning on trying it really soon! Thanks.
hey wat up i have some pics that i take with my bro doing the lighting pics and they were good but something happen to my computer and i lost the pics but anyways i like ur video i think am gonna do one lol well see ya
found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. :[i bookmarked it and will be back to check it
Just watched on Youtube, good job Freddie, keep up the good work!
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Saw your video on Youtube. I consider myself a light painter, for sure, spending lots of money in lighting tools and spending hours under dark skies making the images. Check out these…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyescott/3450217231/in/set-72157602037999506/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyescott/1503747270/in/set-72157602037999506/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyescott/2652593023/in/set-72157602037999506/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyescott/2539563886/in/set-72157602037999506/
thanks dude. Worked. Its Awsome
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i dont get it either lol video showing use how would be nice
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Here is some light graffiti animation that we did at Christmas last year that you might like!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8HtDN4Ygxk
Well done!
Andrew
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wel dis is my work of light paintin…
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/album.php?aid=35461&id=1260196452
Hi Freddie,
Very nice video there
Make me feel that I want to the same ^^
I already did some light painting here :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daidix/3168612070/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daidix/3722161637/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daidix/3562212212/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daidix/3202193857/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daidix/3516981857/
”Lights! Flashlights, LED lights”
Can somebody give me those brushes? plz
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you said to send you a cool version, heres a shot i took last year.
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/2414/img4574lh.jpg
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We go out and Light graffiti all the time… it’s fun!
http://saturninepulchritude.deviantart.com/gallery/#Light-Graffiti
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Freddie, lovin your stuff. Some friends n I used to play around with this stuff, and your stuff took me back
Here’s a few pics we did – not very good quality and I’d photoshop’d a little extra lighting in – wish I had originals, didn’t keep track of that sort of thing back then.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eleazar515/tags/lighteffects/
fantastyczna robota !!!! gratuluje !!!
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Fabulous! How could your guys be so innovative! I have been touching LEDs for three years, but never bring this idea up!
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