Light Painting - Fun with Photography

I like it very very much!!!!

a lot of help well done : )

Lovely, as far as it goes...but What's missing is info about exposure timing. How long does one leave the shutter open for best results? How fast to move the light source? Sure, we can experiment, and we did/do -- but I'd expect a tutorial to at least mention this important element of light painting. I know, I know: what do I expect for two bucks! Still...

I used this video and shared it with some high school students. they loved the results and we took some fantastic photos.

Love this idea! I want more! Would love to see a video on how to do LED animation. How would that work?

Been trying to learn LED light painting photo movies for long time. Thanks

this tutorial is awesome I am so glad I came across this. I am going to be driving my kids crazy getting them to do this for me

Interesting stuff! I will definitely try this with my friends. Hehehe... Never thought it is that easy! Thanks for the idea. :)

Love it, a really creative way of making somethign interesting to look at

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Now I need to find a good digital camera and start playing with it ... Thanks again.

Thank you so much for making this lesson! I have been wondering how to make light photography and you gave such a solid detailed explanation. I love all of your examples too!

!thank you!
glad you liked it!

Tony,

This was very creative, something I would never have thought about. You have a very imaginitive mind, keep it up.

I can try; Headshots I'm in the process of learning myself. But I'm sure there is some knowledge i can impart on people!
-Tony

So I guess the contest is over cause I couldn't vote today , you had the best video by far .wooooo light drawing .that 15,000 is so yours .can you make a video on how 2 make headshots?

Cool mark, what kind of camera are you usin??
I would be glad to show you some tricks and tips;
check out strobist.blogspot.com for some off-camera flash training while you wait!

I would like to see more stuff from you. The lighting on your personal
image for example. Were is the light, how strong. I'm an amature but take some really good shots. I'm always looking to become better with the things I do. Most of my settings are camera controlled for a specific thing. I would like to get out of that to play with manual settings more.

I used to photograph cars from a distance with the shutter open.
Some were good some were bad.

So Get to taping

Interesting, I had no idea real player could do that. Do you know if it will do that to RAW photos as well?
You also make a good point that you can turn on/off the flashlight to make separate lines!

It's a good tutorial but it is not complete,

to have best conditions to do lightpainting :

-a remote control to open the camera far away from it, it's very practical!!

- if you are using a digital camera and if you have an electric source you can make connection between the camera and the computer, in order to have immediatly the image in a big size and many people can see it. You can use realplayer to always have fullscreen image just after downloading.

-if you want to do lightgraff, writing or calligraphy you can hide a part of the light to do just a line of light. So letters are more graphics.

If you like photography try to choose a beautifull point of view.

I hope those elements will serve you, sorry if my english is not good...

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Yes, we all know an overzealous (and stupid!) friend of mine broke something; however, its been fixed, after I myself called attention to it. Mindbites reset my votes to the proper number and we still came on strong. If by creativity you mean telling my friends and everyone I know about it, then yes, that's exactly what I did. It wouldn't mean anything if we cheated or won illegitimately, and all my friends and supporters know that. Good day sir!
[I SAID GOOD DAY!]

@DDSunrise- Yes, you see it a lot on TV actually; Sprint did a cool commercial series involving it! Oddly enough I see it often in movie theater previews...weird..

you see so much of this light painting online and even tv its great to see how its done. my grandpa found it interesting too lol

great vid tony
to the hater- nobody said the lesson had to be original, but judging from the views there are a number of people that found it interesting enough to pass along to others. as for the votes- you're allowed to vote once a day, and i know for a fact that almost everyone is doing that for this video.

The music was cheese in the best of possible ways. Everyone remembers watching videos in school or just any education video that they had great visuals, good transitioning, and most importantly, the cheesy but catchy music. This video is just like one of those, only this had better visuals, some of the best transitions, AND a very catchy and simple music track. All my votes go to you. I hope to see more videos by the person/people who made this.

By the way, the other videos were also good, and they deserve some recognition too. Good work everyone who submitted a video, and I hope this site continues to be a friendly and learning environment for everyone who views and/or uses this website.

yea tfkeefe how could they get so many votes in so few days its as if they have a good video or they're popular or something

Dude idk what you problem is , when someone posted this link on facebook I wasn't even going to look at it but I am glad I did infact it is by far better then any others I saw (aka all of them ) and everyone I sent it to seems like it A LOT ! And as for many votes I know me an my family and friends vote every day just so a loser like you dosent beat out that kids hard work . And might I add nana nana poo poo

No, I did not invent this technique.
I did, however, invent the internet, along with Al Gore.
So...Thanks for the kind words, tfokeefe!
Does this mean I have your vote?

It's a shame you learned how to do this in high school in 1976 instead of learning proper English, eh Tfokeefe?

Anyway, light painting is a lot of fun and this is a great instructional video for it!

Thx. It was very informative and I could understand it in first view!

so good

Sodaman420 Thanks for the lighting lesson

this is awesome!!! great job guys i never knew u could do that with the camera

tony my friend that was amazing great job!!

I can't wait to try this out! Thanks for sharing :-)

Sooo cool! Nice video-clear, and easy to follow and understand. I will definatley have to try this :)

Man! This is awesome! You're a Genius!!!

Definitely try it out!
look for the manual mode on your camera and give it a shot
post some pix and ill add em to here!

Someone mentioned that this was worth checking out. They were right!
This is fantastic!

thats pretty cool, looks easy il give em a try

That was really cool. I'm going to do it.

his is really good you guys!