"painting with light"

[MattyB]

http://www.photo-seminars.com/Seminars/PaintLight/Paintlight.htm

found that website fairly informative and interesting.

definatly a part of photography that i'm dying to have a play with.

anyone have any photos to show?
or any ideas or suggestions to what you think would be a great idea for such a photo?

comments, discussions, samples, etc - start talking :D

[PhotosGuy]

http://www.lostamerica.com/lostframe.html

[UncleDoug]

We picked up several,4, 15 million candle power :shock: light-bazookas to play with.
Helps with fill-in at night architecture shots. We played with this set up in Yosemite. Pissed off a couple of people on El Capitan when we were testing just what we could light up!

[miklav]

I've played with a halogen torch a few years ago:
http://miklav.com/php/browse.php?Category=Still-life

Now I plan to make a kind of "light-brush" using a high-power white LED and to play with it... and having a digital SLR it's much easier to experiment and to make adjustments when needed! ;)

[Nidz]

I seen that Lost America site before. Massive exposures with very long shutter speeds with multiple lights going on and off over a time period.. The shots come out awesome though.

[chucksmanc]

That lost America site is really nice. What type of halogen torch are you talking about? I am interested in doing some of this.

[MattyB]

so am i, i'm going to has a crack with my LED torch and some coloured plastics over them (as filters) or that celifane stuff.

i assume it would be similar to painting a car, if you don't have a light that would cover the entire area - you'd have to 'paint' the light on evenly, otherwise the sensor would grab too much light from 1 area and it'd look 'overlapped' and more intense colours.

interesting. lots of ideas, can't wait :D

[PhotosGuy]

i assume it would be similar to painting a car, if you don't have a light that would cover the entire area - you'd have to 'paint' the light on evenly Actually, you should try to get the reflection in the cars body to paint evenly, no?

[UncleDoug]

so am i, i'm going to has a crack with my LED torch and some coloured plastics over them (as filters) or that celifane stuff.

i assume it would be similar to painting a car, if you don't have a light that would cover the entire area - you'd have to 'paint' the light on evenly, otherwise the sensor would grab too much light from 1 area and it'd look 'overlapped' and more intense colours.

You got it.
But it's hard to paint evenly over a large area.
Fast "strokes" seem to work the best. Then going back for a "second coat".

Play a little. Easy to get this down when shooting DSLR.

[boomer1959]

http://www.photo-seminars.com/Seminars/PaintLight/Paintlight.htm

found that website fairly informative and interesting.

definatly a part of photography that i'm dying to have a play with.

anyone have any photos to show?
or any ideas or suggestions to what you think would be a great idea for such a photo?

comments, discussions, samples, etc - start talking :D



Hey Matt, check out my website. I have a few light paintings in it.:D

[MattyB]

wow dave, you've got some impressive shots :D thanks

frank: i don't quite know what your post meant (i'm tired) but you gave me an idea! to not paint the car at all, but to paint things that should/could/will reflect off the paint of the car... paint in a nice reflection or 10 to show the curves of the car.

no idea how it would come out, because showing a cars 'curves' might only work if you're using 1 light source on a certain angle in the reflection of the car.

[PhotosGuy]

frank: i don't quite know what your post meant (i'm tired) but you gave me an idea! to not paint the car at all, but to paint things that should/could/will reflect off the paint of the car... paint in a nice reflection or 10 to show the curves of the car. No, you got it! Here's a trick to see where to paint. Say the car is next to a white building (acting like a "flat"). If you shine a powerful spot on the area of the car that you want the reflection in, you should be able to see the spot reflected to hit the building. That's where you need to aim the spot for the picture.

[MattyB]

i reckon i'll run a massive spot light over the entire car just once to get the initial exposure of the car, but keep it fairly dark. then run a light really close up (walk with it - drag it) along the white wall a few times to make a bright white line reflection against the car.

[queenbee288]

Dave, took a look at your site, WOW. Really impressive.

Char

[boomer1959]

i reckon i'll run a massive spot light over the entire car just once to get the initial exposure of the car, but keep it fairly dark. then run a light really close up (walk with it - drag it) along the white wall a few times to make a bright white line reflection against the car.



Matt, if you rig up something like a soft box to defuse the light that will also help.

[boomer1959]

Dave, took a look at your site, WOW. Really impressive.

Char



Thanks Char:D

[MTalley]

I took my HS level photography class out last week to do some painting with light. We used colored gels over the built-in camera flashes and I brought along my old Vivitar flash to play with (I forgot the 2 million candlepower spotlight in the back of my truck, though).

Here's a sample of a ghostly image of my son that we did.