Light Painting Contest Winner

The winner of the Light Painting Photography Homemade Light Painting Tool and Image is Rod Evans for this ingenious Light Painting tool made up of  hose clamps, tube guards and empty M&M containers! Incredible how a light painter can walk trough a store and see things differently… “I wonder what that would do if I shine a light through it”

Here is what Rod had to say about his winning image and the tool he created it with!

I captured this image at the pool in my backyard (in northern NSW, Australia). The spiral design was drawn completely by hand and is a shape that I have been working on for the last year or so. Most of my attempts at this shape are not worthy of publication but if I stick with it I usually end up getting at least one good shot from a shoot. When I saw this one on the back of the camera I really liked it as it has good symmetry and a nice reflection.

The tool I built is basically a red acrylic tube with a green M&M’s container taped on the end (I chose the red and green colours for one reason only….it was Christmas!!!). I purchased several coloured acrylic tubes from China recently and I love finding things to tape on the ends for light painting. Walking through the supermarket a while ago, I noticed the M&M’s containers (in four different colours) and thought they might look good with light shone through them, so I purchased them all, cut off the lids and put them to work. I’ve since done a few shoots using the containers and they all look great. The red tube is attached to the torch using a silicon grey-water adaptor that I bought from my local hardware store. I use butterfly hose clamps to secure the tube and torch in place. Torch used was a Nitecore P26. After creating the spiral shape I then walked over to the camera and painted in the trees with my headtorch. Check out more of Rod’s awesome Light Painting work on his Instagram Account HERE!

For this winning Image Rod 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 Light Painting Photography contest titled “Light Being” is…  Dennis Berka, A.K.A Ryus Light Works, for the super cool image above! You might look at this image an wonder how the heck it was created in a single exposure, well there were a lot of steps involved as you will see from the description below! Here is what Dennis said about his complex winning image!

“The photo was created in the ruins of an old tar production building. The place is usually a swamp below the pillars you see in the photo, but one summer here was so hot that it dried up. So I decided to go there with two fellow lightpainters and try out a technique I played around with at that time. For the Fire Golem I placed a small bit of shaped steel wool on a black metal sheet and put up a tripod next to it. I used an old analog Nikkor zoom lens that had a macro setting so it was easy to set focus on the little figure. It was about the size of a smartphone. Next I positioned another tripod for the scene you see in the photo and put a manual wide angle lens on the camera. After setting the scene I drew a circle on the screen of my camera with a non permanent whiteboard marker to mark where the fire golem was supposed to appear. Back to the steel wool figure to align it to fit inside the circle on the camera screen. Once everything was prepared and my friends placed in the scene I closed down the aperture of the zoom lens nearly all the way, lit the steel wool with a lighter and started the exposure. Once it was fully burned through (with the help of a few blows of air) I capped the lens, swapped it to the wide angel and switched tripods to the one for the scene. Now cap off the wide angle lens and the only thing left to do was walk into the scene to the place where the fire golem is supposed to stand and light the scene from there in red. I used a technique that Pala Teth demonstrated a few times here hiding the flashlight from the camera. The last touch was to add a little lake blue light to the shadows of the scene to make them visible a bit more. The rest of the light came from street lanterns a little bit to the side of the place that produced a real nice texture on the pillars because it was shining through large bushes. I played around with this technique quite a lot and have refined and used it a lot of times since then to create a lot of fantastic photos that people always wonder about how they were made.”

You can check out more of Dennis’s Light Painting work on his Facebook and Instagram pages linked Below:
https://www.facebook.com/RyusLightworks
https://www.instagram.com/ryuslightworks

The Models for this image were the Light Painting Duo Night Lights: https://www.facebook.com/Nightandlights/

For this winning Image Dennis will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools and treasures from our sponsors  COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible 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 Orb themed Light Painting Photography Contest for September 2019 is… Mart Barras for the above image titled Nucleus! The thought and execution that went into creating this image without any post production is just nuts. Here is what Mart said about the image… “This was shot in an abandoned MOD ammo dump in wales, during a camping trip with other UK light-painters. I set up facing up a doorway in the dump, knowing it would give me a lot of dead space for a camera rotation and act as a main element and add to the framing. I then put Phil in the doorway and set up a flash on a stand behind him gelled orange. I did a couple of test shots to ensure the rotation part was as accurate as I could get it. I then set up a second tripod , close by facing down the corridor of the dump and marked the spot in the floor where I wanted an orb to be spun. Once that was set up I returned to the original tripod, I set some vape going behind Phill and started the exposure. At each rotation point, I fired off the flash and then capped the lens and moved to it the next position etc. Once I had come back to the start I left the lens cap on and moved the camera to the second tripod position and re-adjusted my focal length to the spot marked out for the orb. The final part was to spin the orb and end the exposure. SOOC Raw conversion in camera, Shot in one exposure. No photoshop.” Tools used: Nikon 7100D Tokina 11-16mm Two Tripods Orb tool Flash Gun Flash Stand Gels Vape Machine Camera Rotation Tool Settings: F5.6, ISO200, 12mm 195.2 seconds Make sure to follow Mart’s mind blowing light painting work on his Facebook and Instagram pages linked below! https://www.facebook.com/mart.barras https://www.instagram.com/martbarras_lightpainting/ For this winning Mart will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools from our sponsors Denis Smith, COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible 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 transportation themed Light Painting Photography Contest for July 2019 is… Jordi Radok for the above image titled Ghost Rider! Here is what Jordi had to say about the winning image!

“It’s been almost a year since we had this photo in a list of photos to do with light painting. We had not been given the opportunity, or so we thought. When we saw the theme of the Light Painting Photography contest I immediately thought about this photo, but time passed, and in the last week before the deadline we started asking friends if they knew someone with a motorcycle that we could use. In the end we got to create the photo in a custom motorcycle workshop! We shot it during their work time so we had to work as fast as possible, because they were working! We took a model mechanic and we did some tests, until we found a picture that seemed correct. The surprise was when we put it on the computer screen, the “model” had not been staying still, so the photo was horrible. Only half a skull and dark shadows were seen around the body, we had to discard the photo, and there were only two days left until the deadline…”

“The next day I remembered that my brother had a couple of old bikes to repair in a small garage. We got down to work… We cleared a little space, put aside all the tools and took one of the bikes, lined the most visible parts with black vinyl because it was originally white, we put a small skull over the fairing and prepared the tripod and camera with an angular optic and a low-angle plane. Almost without looking for it we realized that with a roof very low the roof lines gave us a very interesting perspective, and we started playing. We tried the photo the day before we had internalized the process, Eva put on the Ghost rider kit – mask, leather jacket and chains and rode on top of the bike.”

 

“The first thing that I did was to illuminate Eva and the bike with a warm Minimaglite lantern. Once illuminated I started with the fire effect, which is made with a black fiber optic and a Thorfire tk15s flashlight at full power with an orange gel.”

“I focused more on the front wheel and above the head, then I did a little light against the ground with the same flashlight at half power. Finally we used a bit of smoke to create atmosphere and made a very soft contra light directly from Ghost rider, which was like a statue !! This image we repeated 6 times, but when we put the last photo on the big screen we looked at each other and a huge smile came out to us both, we had just got the photo that we had imagined.”

Gear Used:
Sony a7S
Samyang 14mm

Settings:
Bulb mode
301″ Second Exposure
ISO 125
F 6.3

You can see more of our work here:
https://www.instagram.com/2pixelsart/
https://www.facebook.com/2pixelsart/

For this winning Jordi will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, 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 contest from December 2018 is… Jannis Sid for this simple and elegant Light Painting image he created while walking around one of his favorite locations in the center of Helsinki. This is what Jannis said about the winning image,

For this winning Jannis will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, 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 contest for November 2018 is… Kim Von Coels for the above ghostly image created in her mothers garden with a little help from her friend Sophie!

Kim said this about her winning image:

This photo was created in my mothers back garden, with my friend Sophie Alexi, after several glasses of Port.

To create this image we used an old mosquito net, one torch (LED lenser P7.2) and a blue gel/filter.

First I got Sophie to stand with the mosquito net over her and i lit her and the net with the blue gel over my torch. I then removed the gel and flashed the torch toward the camera several times in a circle around her to create the stars. I then removed the net and asked her to crouch in the same place as she was standing and lit her briefly again. There is a bit of ambient light in the garden from the house lights and the sky is picking up the street lights from a nearby village.

It is an 89 second exposure at F10 and 200 ISO shot using my Nikon D610.

Check out more of Kim’s work at: http://www.thekrumbleempire.com

For this winning image Kim will receive a prize package filled with illuminating tools from our sponsors below. For your chance to win click here to see the next Light Painting Contest Theme and how to enter. 

And as always this light painting photography contest series is sponsored by the best damn companies on earth COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, LED Flexible,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!

And the winner for the Flower Light Painting Photography Contest is…. Stephane Babatasi and Mass Light for their collaborative creation above! This awesome light painted flower was created during a LFLP Meet-up in Provence. Mass created the Calligraphy after Stephane made the dialed camera rotation of the quarry entrance and illuminated the ground.

You can check out more of Stephane’s work here:
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And Check out more from Mass here:
Instagram
Facebook
www.mass-streetart.com

For this winning image Fran will receive a pize package filled with illuminating tools from our sponsors below. For your chance to win click here to see the next Light Painting Contest Theme and how to enter. 

And as always this light painting photography contest series is sponsored by the best damn companies on earth COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, LED Flexible,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 light painting Light Blading contest is Francisco J. Lojo Pasín for the smooth spinning image above!

Fran said this about the winning image!

“I created this image using homemade plexiglass combined with one of my favorite lightpainting techniques, the camera rotation, but  in a weird way this time. I put the camera spinning over a turntable!”

I used two  flashlights with different power, the one with less power was attached to the homemade rectangle plexiglass and the other to a little acrylic bubble tube, both of them in strobe mode!

The process of taking the pic was easy. I held the two flashlights with a hand and while the camara is spinning I shot with a remote trigger and move the lightblades up moving my wrist to finally point the flashlights to the white roof and cut the exposure.

I tried with many different colors, motions, positions… but finally I decided not use colors and played only with the white balance of the camera. for this shot it was the ‘incandescente’ mode combined with white background ( the roof ) and different power of the cold flashlights,  made a great blue tones image, it’s a stunning spiral effect! I’m very proud of the results!

My gear: Nikon D5300 with the 18-140mm kit lens.

The settings were:
f16
ISO 100
3.7 seconds of exposure.

Check out more of Fran’s Light Painting work on his Flickr, 500Px, and Instagram!

For this winning image Fran will receive a pize package filled with illuminating tools from our sponsors below. For your chance to win click here to see the next Light Painting Contest Theme and how to enter. 

As a special addition to this contest prize package Patrick Rochon donated his entire new KYO LITEBLADE SYSTEM! The kit will include, a Klarus XT11S (1100 Lumens), 7 round bottom Liteblades, 1 KYO attachement, one remote pressure switch and a colour sample pack!

And as always this light painting photography contest series is sponsored by the best damn companies on earth COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, LED Flexible,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!