Inexpensive light painting setup?

I've done a bit of google'ing but am not finding much for specifics on lights for light painting for astrophotography, specifically for capturing the milky way. I'm not looking to go too deep down this rabbit hole. I'm mostly looking to paint things close in my foreground so I don't think I need something that covers crazy distances. I'd like it to have a subtle, warm light. I'd love to hear about other peoples setups and even see your results with some light painting.

A subtle warm light would be a flash light with an incandescent bulb. You wanted inexpensive, you got it. If an incandescent flash light is too warm use an led flashlight, it that is too cool put a 1/2 CTO on it. An good led flashlight will still have enough light during a 20 sec or so exposure with a filter on it.

Experiment in your back yard before you of out to shoot for a night.

You might find some help here: https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1446486

https://photography-on-the.net …hread.php?t=715​256&page=1

The method many use is to expose once for the foreground without tracking and once on the Milky Way without changing camera position, then combining the two. I do this using ISO 1600 with a Canon 7D. Sometimes the foreground requires 4 minutes while the MW requires substantially less, whatever is required to get the RGB histogram between a quarter and a third way up the scale.

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The method many use is to expose once for the foreground without tracking and once on the Milky Way without changing camera position, then combining the two. I do this using ISO 1600 with a Canon 7D. Sometimes the foreground requires 4 minutes while the MW requires substantially less, whatever is required to get the RGB histogram between a quarter and a third way up the scale.

I urge you to follow this advice, the vast majority of light painting done by people trying to acquire a single exposure of both the foreground and Milky Way look like utter crap. If you are intent on doing light painting I would ask you consider following Royce Bair's advice with regards to low level lighting, on his website here he gives a number of low level lighting tools that can be used for illuminating foregrounds:

http://lowlevellightin​g.org/

Remember, this is NIGHT ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY first and foremost, the whole point is to image the night sky as it juxtaposes the foreground. The biggest hindrance in modern times to imaging the night sky is light pollution, adding one more light to illuminate your foreground is adding just one more light to the never ending amounts of light that is ultimately shielding us from see the night sky. It is perfectly possible to image natural nightscape images with zero foreground lighting at all, including some of the darkest places on earth, this is a shot with zero foreground illumination taken from a Bortle 1/2 zone:

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/KexD​fC