Just recently getting into light painting, I found some pretty incredible photographers who use light painting to a great extent in their urbexing photos. Some of which absolutely changes the whole mood of the landscape.
So I'm just curious. What Light painters would you recommend checking out for light painting in Urbex places?

A photographer I would highly recommend checking out is Xavier Nuez.
Here's a very short interview documentary on some of the work he's done in the urbex world with light painting: https://www.youtub...NaTGK&index=4&t=0s

here's an example of one Xavier's light paintings1.

Groovy

Always wanted to try it with laser with a beam dispersal lens to paint the whole area. Never got around to it; some optics and drive mechanism be needed for it to paint a 360 degree area automatically.

A tri-color one with 3 lasers (rd,grn,blu) could double as camera jammer as well. That would produce an interesting color image.

Posted by blackhawk Always wanted to try it with laser with a beam dispersal lens to paint the whole area. Never got around to it; some optics and drive mechanism be needed for it to paint a 360 degree area automatically. A tri-color one with 3 lasers (rd,grn,blu) could double as camera jammer as well. That would produce an interesting color image.

Oh yeah for sure. The combinations I use is way too muddled. I still need to experiment with the perfect combination. Red, green, and blue are very pleasing to the eyes. Add to that a laser, that would be magic if in the right hands.

Some light painting we did a while back with the back building illuminated with a purple studio light, and the people outlined using a color-changing flashlight. Light painting is definitely a good tool if you’re ever looking to light up a room, or get really creative.

Posted by Natchraz Some light painting we did a while back with the back building illuminated with a purple studio light, and the people outlined using a color-changing flashlight. Light painting is definitely a good tool if you’re ever looking to light up a room, or get really creative. click to view

That's really cool! Your photo looks really alive too, which is something I always keep an eye out for eye-appealing pictures. It's nice to shake things up form the traditional night photos that we usually do
One thing I have yet to test out is a really high powered spot light in which the beam is very visible. I imagine there would be some cool effects in use. Actually, I think I might test that out this week. I have a light called an Imalent R90c. Gonna test that bad boy out with some long exposures

Noel Kerns

Posted by IndoAnomaly Noel Kerns

Noel was my first exposure to light painting (and arguably how I first really started to actively research local abandonments) and he remains on of my favorite photographers to date.
I don’t know if he still does his annual light painting workshops, but they are a great way to get started with both urbex and light painting.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nkerns/

I don't go nuts with effects, but regularly use subtle light painting as better-controlled alternative to flash in making pitch-dark spaces worth shooting.

Posted by jonrev I don't go nuts with effects, but regularly use subtle light painting as better-controlled alternative to flash in making pitch-dark spaces worth shooting. https://live.staticflickr.com/972/40268214590_b5e57de3e0_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/957/42121177841_029bd0ae7c_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/955/41400953474_f70bcb03be_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/1835/43156450305_f9b027eaa3_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49093906812_f981014954_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49113570643_01541b98bb_c.jpg

I like the pastel color effects in that second photo.
Subtle but aesthetically discernible.

Posted by jonrev I don't go nuts with effects, but regularly use subtle light painting as better-controlled alternative to flash in making pitch-dark spaces worth shooting. https://live.staticflickr.com/972/40268214590_b5e57de3e0_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/957/42121177841_029bd0ae7c_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/955/41400953474_f70bcb03be_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/1835/43156450305_f9b027eaa3_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49093906812_f981014954_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49113570643_01541b98bb_c.jpg

I love the subtle lighting of your set. Especially the one with the escalator!
Going too crazy on lighting, for me at least, can seriously distort the image and the environmental effects. You have a great balance

I've been known to dabble in it...

Posted by Furious D I've been known to dabble in it...

I wandered over to your Flickr page- nice shots!


*Confession: I also took a peek at a couple of the people you follow and found this guy:
https://flic.kr/ps/XNX8U

Wow!

^That's some really impressive stuff! Lighting inside a dilapidated car has some pretty amazing effects. I want to to do one of shading an abandoned house with different color cells. It's hard to pull off. But man it would look so cool

I used to dabble too with gel lights.

So, basically, I'm doing 360 shots of abandoned places. That means 8 shots, 6 for the panoramic view and 2 for sky and ground. Before, when I was in dark areas, I was just using a simple light in front of the camera to light everything.

After reading this topic I tried to make my light more subtle and to create shadows. I almost succeeded on this shot here where the natural light helped a lot : https://roundme.co...3831/view/1812744/

But clearly, if it's not easy to lit 1 shot, it's clearly a pain in the ass to lit 8 and try making them exactly the same from 1 shot to another so there's no wrong shadows and the same amount of light.

I would love to try with colored light so if you have some good tools to recommend, I'll be happy to hear you


EDIT : I just saw Skatchkins photos, that's really cool, good job !

Posted by skatchkins I used to dabble too with gel lights. https://live.staticflickr.com/3829/11938265345_f495d1cb42_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/2887/11935611364_c7e2ea4299_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/3671/11938519015_d93e86b5f8_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/5601/15507966952_e65b508179_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/8651/16114205324_975a0d0df1_c.jpg

Beautiful collection!! I absolutely love this type of photography! I want to combine this with portraits too. There's an abandoned plane 40 minutes away from that I'm going to start doing this at as well