Light Painting
Light paintings is a photographic technique that is usually done in dark areas or even at night. A photographer then introduces different light elements during the single long exposure photo. In the early 20th century artists and others began experimenting with long exposures of moving lights in order to create light drawings.
Types of artists that used light painting.
- Gjon Mili captured a famous series of images of Picasso drawing with light. He also experimented with multiple exposures by setting of the flash repeatedly during a long exposure.
- John Hesketh continue to experiment with coloured lights and filters to make extremely complex and exciting images.
- Janne Parviainen experimented with lots of different lights, however the one that caught my eye and maybe many others was the one of the skeleton. I found this quite amazing when I first saw it because I wanted to know how long he had kept the shutter open to draw the skeleton but still get the man to look like he was opening up at the same time without it blurring in the middle.
- John Hesketh continue to experiment with coloured lights and filters to make extremely complex and exciting images.
- Janne Parviainen experimented with lots of different lights, however the one that caught my eye and maybe many others was the one of the skeleton. I found this quite amazing when I first saw it because I wanted to know how long he had kept the shutter open to draw the skeleton but still get the man to look like he was opening up at the same time without it blurring in the middle.
Janne Parviainen
In our groups we experimented apertures. Here are some of the images I made using long exposures, small hand held lights and a flash gun. We connected a DLSR camera to a tripod, so the image would be perfectly still, while the camera shutter is open for long exposures. We had to change the camera settings to manual mode, therefore we take the picture ourselves, however we did use a various range of shutter speeds start from 10 - 30.
We experimented with different techniques for example:
- Writing and drawing recognisable shapes e.g words/ arrows during long exposures.
- Combining a short flash burst of light with the addition of light drawing so that the subject and the light are both visible.
- Using repeated bursts of flash to expose the subject multiple times in the same image.
We experimented with different techniques for example:
- Writing and drawing recognisable shapes e.g words/ arrows during long exposures.
- Combining a short flash burst of light with the addition of light drawing so that the subject and the light are both visible.
- Using repeated bursts of flash to expose the subject multiple times in the same image.
The word photography translate as drawing (or writing) with light:
Photo - From the Greek meaning light
Graph - From the Greek meaning writing
Photo - From the Greek meaning light
Graph - From the Greek meaning writing
Harlod edgerton
Me and my group got inspired by Harold Edgerton, because of how the quality and how he captured these images so accurately. He maintained that he was a scientist rather than an artist, but he and his colleagues nonetheless produced many stunning pictures, of which milk drop is but one. One Idea we had got from him was that he used long exposures, we also experimented with a strobe light.
WWWI think that having a black back drop and placing the camera at a certain angle works because we can see the lights a lot more clear. You can tell a huge difference between some of the pictures, because most are blurred were as some aren't. Another good thing was that we can change a lot of things, for example we could change the speed of the shutter. This did help us while we were taking the photos because we realised that we didn't have enough time to draw anything with the lights and some of the pictures show that the camera wasn't angled properly.
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EBII think we could of improved on our pictures a lot, by experimenting on the independent variables of this experiment. For example We only used a burst of repeated flashes to expose the subject multiple times in the same image. We could of improved on this by trying to practice it more and with different people and using different shutter speeds to see how the images come out.
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