Our House - Light Painted

[Mad Aussie]

Had a quick go at light painting again last night before bed. This is our house ...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4289834654_b42896193d_o.jpg

[casil403]

Nice! This is a really cool medium MA! It looks are you are enjoying exploring it also. :)

[kat]

Very cool. I got a second here..so I can actually comment.

Is that HDR also with some blur?

[Marko]

Digging the play MA :highfive:

[Bambi]

the effect of this is very very cool. When it gets warmer outside I will try it.

[Mad Aussie]

Thanks everyone. It is a bit of fun.



Very cool. I got a second here..so I can actually comment.

Is that HDR also with some blur?
No Kat ... this isn't HDR. This is Light Painting which I used for some of my 'Wave Sculture' shots as well. Raiven asked me to explain in another thread (my playground thread) so here's what I told her ...

I've done these before but rarely and want to take it up a level now.

There are various techniques in light painting ... you might remember my bear shots ...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3369/3217375202_08b1cec8ea.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3477/3217375160_bb608d9d69.jpg

These were a type of light painting where I set the camera on a long exposure and outlined the bear with some small led bike lights I have to create that image.


Then there was this one from my visit to Chantelle ...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2495/3885736470_b1db8b1bcf.jpg

This one is the same type of Light Painting I did in those shots above.

The technique here is to use a torch or similar ( I used a tiny LED torch) to paint in the rocks in the foreground which would otherwise have been too dark. This one was a single exposure.

The 3 I mentioned in the first post in this thread however are several exposures. I took several long exposures (30 secs each at high f-stops to create the star bursts on the lamps) and then in each shot I light painted with a strong LED night riding bike light different parts of the structures. No flash was used in the taking of these photos, and no small animals were hurt or abused.
When I got them home I then blended several of the shots together to create those photos.

I've been inspired by a guy whose work was included in the latest edition of the Australian Institute of professional Photographers (AIPP) magazine, of which I'm a member. This guy Brent Pearson does amazing work with his specific lighting setup and has an e-mag you can subscribe to (only US$20) in order to learn his technique. I will do this soon.
Have a look at his work on Flickr and you'll see why I'm so impressed with this stuff ... and how much I have to learn yet!!!

I'm not interested so much in his fancy pants out this world lighting shots ... mainly the night landscape stuff here Light Painting - a set on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/brentbat/sets/72157614498099373/)[/QUOTE]

[Mad Aussie]

Oh ... and yes ... I added a blur to this one.

[crystalb]

Very nice

[Mad Aussie]

Thanks Crystal :)

[F8&Bthere]

Nice, MA! Did you run around in a black ninja suit like some of the other light painting enthusiasts do, or were you able to stay out of the frame altogether?

[Mad Aussie]

Nice, MA! Did you run around in a black ninja suit like some of the other light painting enthusiasts do, or were you able to stay out of the frame altogether?
Naked so that people stayed right away ;)

Nah ... I painted from behind the camera.

Last night I went to a shipwreck and light painted that (just started through what I got now) ... had to get in frame a couple of time for that one but managed to stay unseen due to the long exposure and covering the light source from the lens.

[F8&Bthere]

lol, so looking forward to seeing some of those shipwreck shots.... sounds cool!

[MoinMoin]

Great Treatment, MA - your house looks like a dream!

[Mad Aussie]

Thanks MoinMoin.

[Greg_Nuspel]

MA this is cool stuff and from what I have seen lots of fun.

I met a lady doing this once she had some neat stories about visits from the cops. She dresses all in black so she can enter the scene during her 'painting' so people see this person sneaking around in black with a flashlight. She did caution me that you can develop a flashlight fetish and it is hard to pass by one without picking it up, she had about 20 different flashlights with her.

[Mad Aussie]

Thanks Greg. I have a long way to go before I have a fetish I think ... I only had 3 lights with me :)

[Greg_Nuspel]

Here one for you: flashlight (http://www.hidcountry.com/product2.php?pid=25).

[Mad Aussie]

Nice!