Light Painting Video

[Tricia Hunt]

I recently discovered that I can do light painting on my point and shoot [woo!]. It has a setting to leave the shutter open for 15, 30, or 60 seconds. Jon and I tried it last night [I'll upload a shot later. Anyway, he showed me a video today that was pretty awesome. If you've tried light painting, you'll understand how long this probably took. Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SWfPoITlP8

After watching, if you want to share your light painting shots, please do! We're excited to try some new things, and I'd like to get some inspiration from everyone else.

[Vicki K]

Well I just love light painting, I'm not very good at it but when I get the chance I like to practice, here's one of mine. Can't wait to see what you and your husband have done. That video is amazing it must've taken sooooo long to do, absolutely bloody brilliant, thanks for sharing:)

[Jaqie Sakura]

We are totally thinking the same thing! I was about to make a discussion about painting with light tips but you beat me to it! hahah. I will definitely be watching this :D

[Genesis Lomax]

i love light painting, though im not very good at it. thanks for sharing that video!

i have a few pictures in my album:

[Tricia Hunt]

Ok, here are two shots from us playing around.





@jsbp What do you think?

[Sara Byrne]

@veekay @genesislomax @triciaanddazzle What did you use for light? I've used a little flashlight and a lighter. The lighter looks cooler but hurts after a minute!!!!

[Tricia Hunt]

@sbb1980 Flashlight

[payyourrates]

Haven't done any for a while. This is from February.

[Aaron L]

Not done any for a while, here's some inspiration for you

[Tricia Hunt]

@azza_l I like the guy on the table and chairs. That's pretty cool.

[payyourrates]

@azza_l They're really good. The goal keeper's my favourite.

[Danae]

This is fantastic! And I look forward to trying some light painting later in the year when it's always dark here in the frigid north!

[DavidCHR]

Such creative shots!

I've only made one attempt at light painting... a selfie.

[☮Lee Gordon☮]

[Michelle Sheils]

This was from earlier in my project - my first (and only) light painting.

[Jessica]

tricia i love that your camera gets 60 full seconds! the highest mine goes is 15 and it makes it hard to do alot of stuff or either your completely out of breath from running around trying to make the shape or outline lol

[Bugik]

Thanks for starting this thread, Trish. I have to try light painting again, it's fun. Here are mine. I didn't have the right material, I only used the hubb'ys cellphone for the first photo (entry for theme-blur) and a pocket flashlight for the second one.

[Jessica Dowdy]

This is when I discovered painting with light.

[Jaqie Sakura]

@triciaanddazzle Those are so freakin amazing!!! I really love the last one!! AAAHH I cant wait to try a few things out!

[Genesis Lomax]

@sbb1980 the first two are done with a sparkler and the second two are done with a flashlight.

[Martha]

@triciaanddazzle that video is awesome!!!! I've never really done light painting as I can't adjust any shutter speed settings on my camera, but this was done with Andrew's camera back in the day

[Dorrena Ortega]

@wrighty --- Doesn't you camera have a low light setting? Can you use it without the flash? Try using that.

[Martha]

@dmortega I can to some extent, but the only thing I can adjust is ISO and exposure. If I put it on a tripod and set it to the lowest ISO (80), I can get a 1 second exposure, but that's not really enough to capture anything as impressive as the light painting examples seen elsewhere. It sort-of works for shots of car lights if they're going at quite a speed! It also worked quite well with the fire shows in Thailand

One day when I have an income again I'll be able to buy a nice camera with lots of adjustable settings :o)

[Dorrena Ortega]

@wrighty --- Yea, me too! Btw, this is a perfect shot.

[Tricia Hunt]

@prttblues Unimpressive?! If you tried it you would see it took a lot of time and effort. Just go to youtube and type "light painting how to". I'm sure results would come up.

[Tricia Hunt]

@davidchrtrans @asrai @artistmichelle @bugik @sweett @wrighty I think all of these are awesome for different reasons.

Lee, how did you get different colors?

[Kelsey Schmitt]

I love this light painting! My friend did a whole video using it, it was great.
But what do you use to do it? On the 4th of July I did it with sparklers.

[☮Lee Gordon☮]

@triciaanddazzle I used different coloured lights :) in this case the front and back light off a bicycle used the red light first to create the heart then the white light (it really helps if you have good spacial awareness.)

[Marlene Chabot]

It's so much fun to try.