The winners for the Light Painting Photography ORB contest is the Light Painting Dynamic Duo of Lena and Madlen a.k.a. “Charisma Meets Light” for the fantastic image above that took nearly 25 minutes to create! Here is what Lena had to say about their winning creation!

I started with light painting in 2018 and Madlen came on board one year later. We are two light painting artists from Saarland, Germany. We both enjoy and have great enthusiasm for long single exposure photography, painting with light at night, using creative ideas and various tools! Because we share the same passions we in 2019 we formed the project CHARISMA MEETS LIGHT.

We created this image in an abandoned location in France. I had the idea to put two big orbs on a leash as if they were two dogs. We didn’t have a backlight scanner, but luckily we found an old petrol canister in the hall that we placed a Wowtac flashlight behind the model Madlen that worked for the backlight.

Madlen was both a light painter and a model for this image, she created the orb on the left with neon tube cover! I created the other orb on the right side and I drew the dog leashes with sparklers. Finally, we illuminated the hall. Altogether we needed 25 minutes to complete the photo at the second attempt.

We stayed in the hall all night. The hall was dusty and we wanted to protect the lens using the lens cap. The funny thing was that for the first attempt we forgot to remove the lens cap on the camera and almost wanted to break it off, but our motivation was stronger!

Check out more Light Painting work from Lena and Madlen on their Facebook and Instagram pages listed below! https://www.facebook.com/LenaundMadlen https://www.instagram.com/charismameetslight/

For this winning image Lena and Madlen will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools and treasures from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, Rosco and Light Painting Brushes ! Please support these awesome companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible!

The winner for the last Light Painting Photography Contest with the theme of “Inspirational Message Written In Light” is… Stacy Lambert for the above image title BELIEVE.

This image was inspired by Stacy’s friend who is starting her own business called “Believe In You” a motivational and uplifting place to help others look at their life in a more positive way.

Stacy created this image in her local lake called “Canandaigua Lake” in Canandaigua, NY. She captured this image on her Nikon D5600 with the Sigma 17-50 2.8 Lens. The settings were ISO 100 at F8 in Bulb Mode.

You can check out more of Stacy’s Light Painting work on her Facebook and Instagram Pages.

For this winning image Stacy will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools and treasures from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, Rosco and Light Painting Brushes ! Please support these awesome companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible!

If you would like to enter the next Light Painting Photography contest click here for all the details.

The winner for the Light Painting Photography Flower Themed Contest is… Ivan Lucio and Javier Jimenez a.k.a. Riders of Light for the wonderful image above.  Ivan provided a great look at all the steps that it took to create this winning image, check out the write up below!

By Ivan Lucio: Until today we had not shown any photograph of the making of this work. I think it’s a good time to show the amount of time it takes to get to a result like this. We did this session with our friends Dario Cuesta and Miguel Gomez, the inspiration came from the spectacular location. It is a country house that although it was not in use, it was not abandoned, so we were lucky to get permission from the owner to go to take our photographs there. We wanted to create a light plant because the house reminded us of a mushroom and it seemed to us that it could integrate very well some type of light flower in front of this beautiful house. We only had to start designing our light plant, we did not have anything clear what its shape would be. We knew the colors we wanted to use, green to match the mushroom house and a pink to give it a good contrast, so it was time to start to practice the branches and see how the light strokes worked. Here are a few of our first practice shots.

We decided to combine 2 different flashlight modes that we thought could be make the image much better. We used a continuous light and strobe light, the flashlight used was the Klarus RS11, it has these 2 modes with separate buttons.   The tools to paint the plant were 2 plexiglass rod with its adapter and some round methacrylate filters.

The camera we used was an Olympus OMD EM1 Mark II, with a 7mm wide-angle lens, all the tests were done with a very short exposure time so as not to waste a lot of time since it was very cold, as you can see the sky is totally dark in these first tests for that reason.

You can see photo after photo we tried to improve the type of trace, we were discarding some things and adding others. Seeing that we were already liking how the plant was looking we began to test the lighting of the house little by little. We keep trying new ways!

  We decided to include in the ground some points of light in the shape of a triangle, when we tried and we liked it a lot. We made these points of light with some boxes of colored LEDs that we placed well placed on the ground. Below is a photograph of this tool that we use a lot when we need fixed continuous light. At this point in the tests, perhaps 2 hours had passed, many times people do not know the work behind creating a single image! Remember that it was also very cold and there were  more and more tests that we did that you don’t see here. We also tried to see if we could include some sparkles but we didn’t like it so we discarded that idea.

While we were testing the exposure for the sky we found an incredible surprise that we had not planned! The polar star was just above the house!!! WOW! We found that we could have a beautiful photograph with a star trail around the house, we had not planned this and but we could not let the idea escape! This was the last test before launching into the final photograph, as you can see, all the lines are already in order and the mushroom house masterfully illuminated by Dario, with the Fenix FD41 flashlight. At this point, it was time to configure the camera, the settings that we used were:
Live Composite Mode
F 5,6
ISO 500
Exposure Time 60”

To draw with light, after creating the plant and giving light to the house we let the live composite mode work, that is, it creates many photos of 60 “each, I think I remember that the final time of the photograph was about 30 minutes.

We hope you liked this work and that it inspires you to create your light plants, which do not have to be so complex, you can do very beautiful things like these others

You can follow us on these pages and social networks:  IG @riders_of_Light    web : Ridersoflight.com  IG @ivan_lucio_Light_Painting   web: Ivanlucio.es

For this winning image The Riders of Light will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools and treasures from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, Rosco and Light Painting Brushes ! Please support these awesome companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible! If you would like to enter the next Light Painting Photography contest click here for all the details.

The winner for the “Tree of Light” Light Painting contest is ROM Light Painting for this magical image created in 310 seconds using a variety of creative DIY light painting tools! Here is what Romain had to say about this magical work of art!

Concept:
I love making light paintings photos paying homage to nature. This is a big part of my works. I find it hard to do without her and I find her beautiful. Trees are very symbolic, they plant their roots deep in the earth, and grow ever higher, towards the sky. They represent life and also allow us to breathe. When I discovered light painting, in 2009, I also discovered the works of Michael Bosanko, who made magnificent images of light painting with trees of light. His photos intrigued me and inspired me a lot. I did many light trees in my works, but one of my better attempts is this one I think. I made this image in the south of France. This day (night), I met Philippe Reyne, a french photographer who lives near this place. He kept me company and we talked a lot at the same time. It was a great night because I made two of my best photos on this evening (joined with the cat near the tree).

Location:
Saint Joseph Sanctuary (Roussas – France) Technical details
Gear: Nikon D610, Nikkor 24/85mm F/3.5-4.5,tripod, IR remote
Camera Settings: F/7.1 ISO400
Exposure Time: 310 Seconds With a cold white balance.

Light Painting Tools:
For this photo I used different kind of lights: – To draw the tree: I used a white cold cathode tool (DIY). It’s a great tool that I use often but it is very brittle. I regularly change the cathode because I broke it regularly. You can do a similar light effect with a methacrylate (plexiglass) tube, but maybe less fine in the drawing.
I quickly turn the light on and off multiple time drawing in the same time. At first the roots, then the body, then branches. My body help me to know where and what part I draw.
– Greenery: Green laser with methacrylate (plexiglas) tip (DIY). Here again I turn on and off multiple times and move (fastly) at the same time into the part of light branches.
– Halo: EL Wire
– Little points or traits: Little keychain led
– Points on the ground: Light garland. I change it position and turn on and off multiple times.

If you would like to see more of Romain’s light painting photography please check out his Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube channel!

For this winning image Romain will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools and treasures from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, Rosco and Light Painting Brushes ! Please support these awesome companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible! If you would like to enter the next Light Painting Photography contest click here for all the details.

The winner of the Kaleidoscope Themed Light Painting Contest is Stéphane Babatasi for the incredible and complicated Light Painting Photograph Below! Read on for all the details on how Stéphane created this extraordinary image!

Stéphane had this to say about his winning image:
“This image has been created during LFLP session in 2019 (www.lflp.fr) using a kaléidoscope gratefully offer by Olivier Faÿ few days ago. He is well-known as a kaléidoscope master for long time since then, he also gave me few tips on how to use the kaléidoscope.”

Here we are, down there, ready to take part to an amazing session above the city of lights called KTALIGHT session N°8. The light crew was 100% LFLP members (Yoan aka Yoyo,, Audrey aka Pom’s and Juls aka Juls El Presidente). The most difficult part of the job was to cautiously protect the kaléiodoscope during the quarry exploration. We quickly found an old limestone gallery that perfectly fit for an idea I got to use the kaléidoscope.

First step : create the light form using the kaléidoscope ; one of us hold tight the kaléidoscope during another one move orange light source on each angle of the K. After few tries we knew exactly how and where should be created the form.

Second step : create the model ; I use a lantern I design with a radio command attached in my back. My left hand holds the command in my back. This is a kind of auto-backlighting…

Third step : A mate use a small scanner (orange tint) to make the face and the hand appear It was important to precisely choice the color of each lamp to simulated the reflexion of the light form on the wall and on the model.

Gear To create this image:
Canon 5D Mark
17mm TS F/4
Manfrotto tripod
Kaléidoscope design by Olivier Faÿ
Lantern with radio command
Mini scanner
Scripter orange
1 or 2 LP mates Patience

Camera setting : Iso 100 ; f/11 ; 62 sec ; no focus or aperture changing during the shoot!

Scroll down for a couple more from this shoot and to see even more of Stephane’s Light Painting work check out his FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM and/or Flickr

For this winning image Stephane will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools and treasures from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, Rosco and Light Painting Brushes ! Please support these awesome companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible! If you would like to enter the next Light Painting Photography contest click here for all the details.