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1 2   UER Forum > Archived UE Photo Critiques > Gave light painting a try... (Viewed 557 times) Reciprocity Failure  Location: Santa Barbara/Chicago Gender: Male See you on the dark side of the Moon  |  |  Gave light painting a try... < on 10/24/2006 6:10 AM >   Fun stuff. This is about a 750 second exposure. Couple cell phones, a lighter, a glowstick and a laser. Also a few cigarettes, but none of them really showed up. Any tips for next time I give it a try? "It only takes one tree to make a thousand matches, it only takes one match to burn a thousand trees." DaNmAn  Location: Can-Beer-ah Gender: Male Shit Talking since 1978  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 1 on 10/24/2006 8:15 AM >   Cant really give you any tips unless you tell us what you were really trying to achieve. Usually light painting is associated with using a sun gun to light darkened areas at nigth whle using cable release as you have. Hunter of the shadows has risen Boffo  Moderator Location: Smithers, BC Gender: Male HONK! HONK!  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 2 on 10/24/2006 8:26 AM >   All my light painting shots are, set camera to 30 seconds. Shine flashlight at subject and move it around until area is exposed, adjust exposure time and brightness of flashlight used for desired effect. Most of the time I just use a maglite... Here's a lockpick. It might be handy if you, the master of unlocking, take it with you. Danger Jones  Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 3 on 10/24/2006 2:07 PM >   I don't mean to be harsh, but if this is a joke, it's awesome! If this is serious, it's just kind of "eh". If you're going to do such long exposures and such abstract light-painting, maybe you should try to cover the entire "canvas" with light streams or whatever you call them. Make like a Jackson Pollack light painting. Danger is his reward. micro  Gender: Male Slowly I turned  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 4 on 10/24/2006 2:19 PM >   Next time just do a 10 second exposure while driving around in your car at night. Chances are you'll get something that looks almost identical to this. Take that as you will. yokes  Location: Toronto Gender: Male I aim to misbehave  |  |  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 5 on 10/24/2006 2:53 PM >   Also worth noting that this isn't light painting. "Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel kjohnnytarr  Location: Columbia, Missouri Gender: Male Team Asbestos: CoMO  |  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 6 on 10/24/2006 4:10 PM >   Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...that looks fucking psychedelic, but it ain't UE. I'm assuming this was just practice, so I'll say: I look forward to seeing you lightpaint an actual location. Best of luck! It seemed like a good idea at the time... kjohnnytarr  Location: Columbia, Missouri Gender: Male Team Asbestos: CoMO  |  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 7 on 10/24/2006 4:11 PM >   PS frame a glossy of it and sell it at a flea market (I mean that in a friendly way) It seemed like a good idea at the time... Corporal_Clegg  Location: Baltimore, MD Gender: Male  |  |  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 8 on 10/24/2006 4:17 PM >   It looks pretty cool, although its not light painting. YEAHBUTWAT Reciprocity Failure  Location: Santa Barbara/Chicago Gender: Male See you on the dark side of the Moon  |  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 9 on 10/24/2006 11:55 PM >   Well, whatever you want to call it, it was just experimentation to see what would happen. I opened the shutter for a while, and then waved various light emitting objects around in the frame to get different colored lines and pattern to appear. I've been shown similar techniques and heard them called light painting. If anyone wants to tell me what it is called rather than what it isn't called, so I don't sound like I fool, that would be appreciated. I know that light painting is also the term for using a flashlight on the subject to selectively light a subject, but it seems that the term would be broad enough to include what I'm doing as well. I was making a painting with light. Now obviously it's very abstract and not very painterly, but not all actual paintings are those things either. It's mostly an experimental vein of photography anyways, from what I can tell, so I don't think the parameters would be all that restrictive. That being said, obviously I can be wrong, that is just why I would call it that. I didn't really know what I was doing, or what would happen. Just trying to learn more about what I do and hopefully further myself as a photographer. And for the record, this was all done in an abandoned 100 year old barn. Thats UE-ish. During a rainstorm no less. Pretty interesting being in total darkness with all the noises of a storm and a very creaky barn. Plus there were raccoons skittering around up in the rafters. Light painting or not, it was fun to do. I'd recommend trying it at least once. I feel like I have a better feeling of how my camera reacts to light now, so at least it wasn't a waste of my time. "It only takes one tree to make a thousand matches, it only takes one match to burn a thousand trees." Boffo  Moderator Location: Smithers, BC Gender: Male HONK! HONK!  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 10 on 10/25/2006 12:10 AM >   You can also spell stuff like that. Glow stick for the win. Here's a lockpick. It might be handy if you, the master of unlocking, take it with you. dsankt  Location: live and in the fresh  |  |  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 11 on 10/25/2006 1:24 AM >   mmm, photonic vomit. I'll pass.... sleepycity.net: watch out for the third rail baby, that shit is high voltage. urbex and urban exploration photography Wes  Location: Kansas City, MO Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 12 on 10/25/2006 2:51 AM >   in photo class, i decided to do something like this. i took long exposure pics of christmas lights, and moved the camera. of course, the film got stuck and i ended up shooting 24 exposures onto the space of 1. nontheless, it was one hell of a picture DaNmAn  Location: Can-Beer-ah Gender: Male Shit Talking since 1978  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 13 on 10/25/2006 6:55 AM >   Posted by yokes Also worth noting that this isn't light painting. Hence my post above. Pretty redundant being so abrupt and saying this without actually explaining what light painting is. Why bother posting if your not going to be constructive and give feedback. Lightpainting will yield results such as these click to view Peace [last edit 10/25/2006 6:59 AM by DaNmAn - edited 2 times] Hunter of the shadows has risen mortimer  Location: teronno  |  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 14 on 10/25/2006 1:52 PM >   Technically speaking, by definition, this is light painting, but according to common photographic convention, it's not. This might confuse you: http://en.wikipedi...iki/Light_Painting Keep in mind the last line on that page: Category: Wikipedia articles needing factual verification (italics mine) For examples of good light painting, use google, or go here: http://www.lostame...com/lostframe.html Take special note of: http://www.lostamerica.com/how.html Also, check out (hit user search, they're all on uer) Kowalski's site, Dsankt's site, Siologen's pbase gallery, or any other experienced drain photographer's site. Drainers are usually pretty good with light painting since drains are generally pitch black unless you light them up. Read, look, then go try lighting up the barn, from the inside or outside, and post it so we can see what the 100 year old abandoned barn looks like at night. BTW, you can use any brand of flash to do this at night, since it doesn't have to be attached to the camera - personally, I use a Vivitar 283 (used cost=$25) with wide angle adapter (that came with a few coloured gels). Lee Filters also has a sample pack of roughly 500 different coloured gels that fit the end of a 283 almost exactly, and the sample pack is free from the right shop. yep. Squidgit  Location: Brighton Ontario Gender: Female There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me  |  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 15 on 10/25/2006 10:25 PM >   Posted by micro Next time just do a 10 second exposure while driving around in your car at night. Chances are you'll get something that looks almost identical to this. Take that as you will. I did that a few nights ago click to view click to view click to view click to view The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. caged in  Location: Ripon, Wisconsin Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 16 on 10/25/2006 10:45 PM >   i dunno what it is but it looks cool nomeus  This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information. Location: FLA Gender: Male www.FLURBEX.com  |  |  |  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 17 on 10/25/2006 11:38 PM >   these 3 areas were almost totally dark....i waved my light around during a long exposure and this is what i got www.terraincognito.com DaNmAn  Location: Can-Beer-ah Gender: Male Shit Talking since 1978  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 18 on 10/26/2006 9:53 AM >   Those car ones always remind me of driving home after a pizza and a 40 Hunter of the shadows has risen MutantMandias  Perverse and Often Baffling Location: Atlanta, GA Gender: Male Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.  |  |  Re: Gave light painting a try... <Reply # 19 on 10/26/2006 11:40 AM >   These were essentially pitch black areas. click to view click to view I used just a head lamp in my hand to paint across the scene. mutantMandias may cause dizziness, sexual nightmares, and sleep crime. ++++ mutantMandias has to return some videotapes ++++ Do not taunt mutantMandias mutantMandias is something more than human, more than a computer. mutantMandias is a murderously intelligent, sensually self-programmed, non-being UER Forum > Archived UE Photo Critiques > Gave light painting a try... (Viewed 557 times) 1 2   All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. 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