Painting with light

[kody]

Hey Ive been testing out painting with a flash light, and I have gotten a couple I like, but I want to know what other people do and their process of taking long exposures painting with light. Settings, technique, and tools. Ive seen some really cool pictures and want to see some more, so post your light pictures so you everybody can see the cool technique! Heres one of my favorites Ive done

[The Steve From 2010]

This is my favourite out of my own;



Required a 30 sec shutter and three different coloured crepe paper caps for my torch, see the day prior's photo for those.

Aaron L @azza_l has done loads of good ones, I like this one in particular:

[The Steve From 2010]

P.S. Yours is pretty tasty!

[Amber Howe]

These are great! I will hopefully get a chance to do some light painting soon! Keep the great shots coming guys!!

[Jo West]

this is one that I did

I want to try it out some more tho with more colors

[Vikdaddy]

I tried it once ages ago, and I consider it a failure. I must rectify this!

[Teresa (pocketmouse)]

This isn't really light-painting in the traditional sense, but it's still a pretty cool effect nonetheless -



19 second exposure (yes, he stayed almost perfectly still for that long!!!), while I painted his face with a torch.

[The Steve From 2010]

@pocketmouse I love the stuff you two have been doing with this technique!

[Aaron L]

@eyebrows oh wow, thanks for the plug mate :)

[Belkis Hull]

nice!! I would love to give that a try...any good links where I can get started?

[Cynthia C.]

For that one, I focused with the light opened, then closed the light. Used a 30 secs exposure, painted the halo and pointed the flash light at each wings for a few secs, then above the angel for about 2 secs, to light him (cause there was no other light)

[kody]

@eyebrows @joklubek @azza_l @pocketmouse @maola @vikdaddy those are sweet! the car ones are really cool, how long did it take to outline the car? and the face looks so dramatic, crazy to stay still for 19 sec. And the angels looks curious whats going on, awesome haha, like the halo. and i like what i think are the cherries, looks really good for what im guessing is free hand, and vik it still looks cool even if you think it was a fail, the backgrounds awesome! howd you get that?
and again awesome shots peeps! keep em coming

[Cherie T]

This was one of my favorites!

Exposure: 6 sec (6/1)
Aperture: f/10.0
ISO Speed: 400
Focal Length: 50 mm

[payyourrates]

I set my camera to bulb and use a remote control to take the exposure. Usually set the aperture between 16-22 to make sure the image is sharp. Then I wave the lights around and hope for the best.

[Aaron L]

@klittle The car took about 30 seconds, as that max lenth of shutter speed unless you a remote shutter. Along with these too.... :)

[matt sheeley]

this is my first try with light painting....i was told the theme for the day was "tag".....tell me what you guys think...

[Big Mac]

I HAVE MINE TOO!!!!!! first time to try this one! and glad it has 12 faves already! hihihih

[Jen]

just spotted this .. my first attempt..

[John Lynn]

Just posted this yesterday.

[Sarah Munnings]

@justine_X and @kazzaj and I had GREAT fun learning about light painting on Tuesday evening....
here is one of my first efforts!

[Sarah Munnings]

and this .... which is a long way to what i was trying to achieve, but could be better

[Karen]

Such fun we had! My fave is the welly walking!