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UER Forum > Private Boards Index > Flashlights, Torches and Light Painting > Your exploring light autobiography! - say hello here! (Viewed 17143 times)
g.o.s.t. 


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< Reply # 20 on 6/5/2009 7:28 PM >
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I've never really got to serious with light painting although it can be interesting.

HI I'm G.O.S.T! (there I said hi)

In the field I tend to use a nice bright lantern, I love the soft blue light I get with it but when I need something I not so uncontrollable for fear of being seen I use the flashlights I have with me. I have a maglite D that when you take off the head you get a nice large even soft light as well as a mini mag that you can use as very even candle light. Unfortunately I am a fan of natural tho and was taught that the flash is pure evil so I avoid it all together usually and love the power of the long exposure. I love playing with shutter speeds and experimenting with it.




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< Reply # 21 on 6/5/2009 9:41 PM >
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Hey all! I swear I already joined this board, but apparently not. Anyways, I love lightpainting, it adds a completely different element to a photo and there's tons of potential for experimentation and creativity. I mostly work with whatever's cheap, i haven't forked out the cash for some good lights quite yet, but I tend to have lots of fun with sparklers and colored leds. Anyways, I'll go post some pics in the gallery so you can see what I've been experimenting with.




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< Reply # 22 on 8/6/2009 2:11 PM >
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Hi guys! I'm new in here.
since I'm from Belgium I have less opportunities to use flashlights (no drains, our sewers are pretty small and you have to be discrete in the city) but I've always been a gadget freak so I'm always carrying around 3 or 4 flashlight when I'm off to a location.

here a those that I use the most

my headlight (best thing I ever bought, has changed my crawling style)




other great thing I bought was a fenix tk11
I couldn't believe what amount of light that could come out of such a small thing! and the 18650 batteries are just amazing


isn't she a beauty?


than the crappy stuff, a minimag (most of the time in my gf's hands) and a shock and waterproof duracel that I drop inside water tanks etc when I want them to be illuminated for a cooler effet.




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< Reply # 23 on 8/6/2009 6:07 PM >
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1995-2006: Various Maglite

2006-2007: Streamlite XD1

2007 - present SureFire E2D-L




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< Reply # 24 on 8/7/2009 10:59 PM >
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hi all,
I thoroughly enjoy light painting down in drains, done properly it can make a drain seem almost surreal!
Some of my stuff (I am still learning)

Burning steel wool in Melbourne's ANZAC drain.


Sparklers and an LED spirograph wheel near an old fuse box at the Surrey Drive brickworks.


Done using my Eveready LED head lamp's red stealth light.


Corkscrew done using a single LED key light. also 100 tea-light candles were setup down here, the drain is ANZAC.

Myself and Man_underground who I go draining with use the following:
Eveready head lamp
2 16 LED torches
1 Xenon torch with coloured filters
1 3 million candlepower rechargeable spotlight.
A blue LED spirograph wheel and other LED setups.
I am in the process of making some battery powered cold cathode lights as well.




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metawaffle 

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I remember playing around with steel wool as a pyromaniac teen - you've inspired me to give it another try.




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< Reply # 26 on 8/11/2009 1:39 AM >
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Posted by DevilC
2007 - present SureFire E2D-L


If I'd had to pick anyone around here as a SureFire owner, it would probably have been you




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< Reply # 27 on 8/31/2009 8:22 PM >
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I finally joined this board because I was sick of seeing Meta selfishly plug it every chance he got.

But anyways:

I have a 3D maglite that I luuuuv.

Oh, and a 12 volt spotlight that I bought for $.50 at a garage sale. It lives in my truck. It is bright and melts snow.




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< Reply # 28 on 11/17/2009 8:10 AM >
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After all my snobbery about using fancy batteries, I now find that I'm using my Quark with 2xAA body almost exclusively when I'm out 'sploring, just 'cos of the groovy ultra-dim setting.




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I currently have...

2 garrity 1 million torches (one is dying), I don't like these much because of the hot spot I have with it and how bulky the damn thing is.

3 d maglite (probably would be used more often if I didn't feel like dragging the garrity underground, and if I didn't haul cameras around either)

1 fluro (was going to get rid of it until I found $2 replacement batteries!)

Princeton Tec fuel headlamp (ok really)

Flizer 100 lumen LED light (really good)

Browning Pro hunter LED (red green and white) - most recent

and a bin of $2 leds

LED ring light (really cheap/dodgy looking thing) but hella bright!





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< Reply # 30 on 2/3/2010 4:17 PM >
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Hey guys!

I used to dislike light painting, however in the great state of massachusetts, they love to board every window in their abandonments, so it's grown on me.

Lately, I've been using an LED flashlight with different colored of seran wrap over it to get different colors. Soon, I'm actually going to buy something a bit easier to use!




It's all foreign to me.
bonnie&clyde 


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Cleverly disguised as responsible adults

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< Reply # 31 on 2/24/2010 8:26 PM >
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Hello everyone. I have been farting around enough on here that I mite as well introduce us to the Flash light crew. We are B&C & I am Clyde. I do most of the posting but Bonnie has full access and chimes in occasionally. We are in out late 30's & i am a bit of an old schooler. I'm a Mag fan. I consider myself an explorer who takes pix. Not the other way around. So light painting & flooding a whole room for a shot are not my main concerns. Just reliability, durability, size & $. Here is my full lineup.



My primary is the 2AA 3 watt LED Mini-Mag. It is comfortable to hold & I like that there are tons of accessories for them. The full size Mag is a 3D LED. I only bring this in drains & where I feel safer with it. I keep a 4D LED in my truck for emergencies. My back up is a Streamlight Key mate.


I will give a review on this in a bit. It is another wee lil light that has done nothing but impress me. Lastly my lil Nano Key light I gave a review on previously. We both have the same lineup but not always use the same torch. I will touch on that in my Key mate review.

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< Reply # 32 on 4/27/2010 1:24 AM >
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Trent mentioned this subforum which I had seen before but forgot about! Mostly I'm a rarely active member on CPF regarding flashlight matters but I've been ramping up as I'm looking for a high CRI and relatively high output LED flashlight for mixed use but importantly good color rendition for light painting.

At present I've got a mix of things:

two 3 watt Huntlights that I got for the price of one, which is good because one is missing

Malkoff modded Mag 4D
Fenix LD20
Fenix LD01
Petzl Myo XP belt
Petzl Zipka Plus
2 mil candlepower lead acid hardware store special

As mentioned I'm on the hunt for a flashlight that can replace my Malkoff-Mag and the 2 mil lead acid for most duties, is more compact and runs hopefully on AAs (for convenience & compatibility with my army of flash batteries). Fenix TK40 looks tempting but I am unconvinced that its CRI would be good enough, but it's hard to find a real review that focuses on that rather than output and some half-meaningless banter about 'tint.'

The only truly high CRI LED flashlights I've found are expensive, overpriced really, and have weak output.




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PositivePressure 


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Hi everyone! This is my first time actually posting to this section of the forum!

I'm actually just sort of starting out with light-painting. I've always relied heavily, and almost solely, on strobes/portable flash for the majority of my photography. The closest I'd usually get to light-painting is using a fixed, constant light source along with my flashes.

Lately, having grown tired of hauling ridiculous amounts of lighting equipment around during explorations, I've been wanting to try and get the hang of light-painting. I've always been picky about my flashlights, mostly due to my job, and having experienced scary power outages as a kid, haha. I think there is something to be said for having a dependable light source... the ability to have light within reach wherever you are if you need it!

My current flashlights consist of a couple of AA maglites, one with a standard tungsten bulb, and one LED. I've also got a 2D maglite, but its much too big to be carrying around.

My favourite flashlight right now is my Streamlight Scorpion LED. The throw is awesome and its nice and light. I just wish they had made it with an all-aluminum body and an actual o-ring for waterproofing, instead of the annoying outer rubber coating. I'd love to get a light that is just as bright, if not brighter, and has the option of a wider beam for area lighting as well.

I've also got, in the headlamp department, a Petzl Tikka Plus 2. Although it isn't the most element-resistant thing ever and has a bad habit of sending light downwards into my face when I'm wearing glasses, etc, its pretty bright and I like the color of light the LED produces on-camera.

In a pinch, my iphone with flashlight app can work pretty well for doing neat stuff, too. Of course, that's only when the stupid thing isn't crashing every 2 seconds.

Hopefully I can find my technique and start using my lights as a photographic tool more often




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< Reply # 34 on 7/18/2010 2:42 AM >
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Hey guys i'm Cryptix and I really like gadgets and flashlights.

I just started off with maglites when I first started exploring...I had some small AA ones and acouple C and D cell lights (pictured Below).

In the last year or 2 I started buying LED lights and everytime theres some on sale I end up buying more....I'm looking into buying a good quality light like a surefire or something similar.

This is mainly what I have now...I have a ton of cheap crappy LED lights that arent pictured but there nothing worth mentioning.



The light on the far left is a "lightmates" 160 Lumen 4 mode light.

The next 2 are just garrity lights I believe there around 45 lumens, there really well built and they've taken a lot of abuse. I bought a pack of 3 for like 18 bucks. Beside those 2 is my Bass pro light which is not a bad light.

The next one is my Leatherman monarch 300 it's only 16 lumens but its a beautiful little light that I always carry because its so small...This light came with my LM wave multitool which is pictured above it.

The rest of the lights are just cheap no name ones except the 2 big maglites and the 2AA dorcy light..

So now I've just been shopping around for a good quality all around light to buy.




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The next one is my Leatherman monarch 300 it's only 16 lumens but its a beautiful little light that I always carry because its so small...This light came with my LM wave multitool which is pictured above it.


I have to say I use my little keyring light more than any of the others I have.




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I have to say I use my little keyring light more than any of the others I have.


Yeah same I carry it everywhere and its very handy.




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Hello Hello!

new to the forums, lurker for some time.

equip wise when it comes to my lighting gear, just some p.o.s. dollar store LED flashlights, had some floodlight years ago, but nothing special to write home about.

I never really took ue too seriously, at least not like some of my other friends (you know who you are ;)) but recently with a change in my personal interests I'm becoming more drawn to ue and getting back into photography..so yeah..time to get serious and get some gear.

I'm sure I'll have more to add down the road, but I mainly just wanted to pop in and say whats up.

oh..and I'm praying Santa brings me one of these this year...



but who doesnt? lol.




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One for me too, please




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no problem
I'm prepared to water board him till he coughs them up...you got a color pref? haha




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