Light Painting

ZeroChad · Post by **ZeroChad** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:38 am

I don't know if anyone here has tried/heard of it before

Here is the basic idea. Night, long exposure, and a light source.

You can apply this concept to cars too. I originally was just trying to light up the car and not get my led headlamp to make the streaks. All of these were taken in pitch black.

But then I thought it looked pretty cool with the streaks

Pardon the winter steelies lol. Give it a try if you have the camera. Its a lot of fun.

[DJ]Tomski · Post by **[DJ]Tomski** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:59 pm

that looks cool. you should try to spell your user name out and take a pic

jetas · Post by **jetas** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 2:00 pm

It would have to be done a certain way for me to like it. BUT i do like the concept

TNK · Post by **TNK** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 2:17 pm

pretty cool

fearingdark · Post by **fearingdark** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:49 pm

do you hold a light? or do you move the camera around?

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:54 pm

Looks sweet

2005.Neon.SXT · Post by **2005.Neon.SXT** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:55 pm

fearingdark wrote:do you hold a light? or do you move the camera around?

probably move the light source around. The camera is stationary and just picking up the light source as it moves around while the camera's lense is open.

Pics look pretty cool, btw

theTeejmiester · Post by **theTeejmiester** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:57 pm

^^ you set your shutter speed to a longer exposure and then walk around the car with a light

http://www.lapp-pro.de/

ZeroChad · Post by **ZeroChad** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:55 pm

Thanks. you guys should try it sometime. The real goal is not to get any glare from your light source and just light up the object you're shooting, similar to the first car pic. If you can find a place that's dark, with a few things in the background lit up, its ideal.

Here's a cool one.

Tam · Post by **Tam** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:07 pm

Wouldn't it capture images of yourself holding the light? Sorry, im a noob at this. lol

But it looks VERY cool. I really want to do this too!

Ntyvirus1 · Post by **Ntyvirus1** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:11 pm

Tam wrote:Wouldn't it capture images of yourself holding the light? Sorry, im a noob at this. lol

But it looks VERY cool. I really want to do this too!

what he said. sweet pics though.

ZeroChad · Post by **ZeroChad** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:28 pm

That's the cool thing about it. Since its dark out, the camera will only pic up what you shine the light on. You can see my pants in 2 of them above cuz I hit them with the light by accident. I think if you put some time into it, and sheilded your light source well enough, you could make some cool pics.

TNK · Post by **TNK** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:51 pm

i need a good camera....

jetas · Post by **jetas** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:44 am

Dude thinkin about it, Josh should do this but with the fire things he twirls around

Pocahontas · Post by **Pocahontas** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:48 am

This is so cool!

03sxt · Post by **03sxt** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:13 am

I might have to give this a whirl some time. It might be hard to find a place with such little light though...

hul kogan · Post by **hul kogan** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:17 am

Very cool. I like the concept a lot! I might have to mess around with that.

Passt · Post by **Passt** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:23 pm

Someone on here (I think) did this and made a halo around the top of their car and had it as their sig.

GtozMb · Post by **GtozMb** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:06 pm

those look pretty cool nice work

UriahRR · Post by **UriahRR** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:38 am

I dig it.

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:25 pm

Passt wrote:Someone on here (I think) did this and made a halo around the top of their car and had it as their sig.

I was just thinking that. If I recall correctly it was 01rtgurl. I could be wrong though.

j-king · Post by **j-king** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:10 pm

thats sweet

Trinity · Post by **Trinity** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:53 pm

I used to light paint a lot... but just abandoned places...

this was done with a green laser pointer... and my friend was on the other side of the safe using a flash.

this is the last one I did on cars.. its not as even so I use flashes now.

ZeroChad · Post by **ZeroChad** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:37 pm

^Sweet

I need to get a better light source.

Trinity · Post by **Trinity** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:52 pm

every flash light is different!