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March 2014 Light Painting Contest Winner

April 3, 2014 by Jason D. Page

And the winner is… Marisa Sheilds for the above image “Along the Lane”. Marisa created the image in a relatively short 30 second exposure using “glow sticks on string to swing them in a clockwise and counterclockwise motion, each rotation I gave the strong less slack until it had none and then released it back out, traveled farther down the lane and repeated for the total 3 circles.”

For this single line light painting Marisa will receive a LPP prize pack filled with treasures from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, and LED Flexible!

To see more of Marisa’s work check out her site https://shieldsphotography.shutterfly.com/

Click here to see the current contest theme and find out how to enter to win your LPP prize pack!

March 2014 Light Painting Contest Entries

March 22, 2014 by Jason D. Page

Here are the entries for the March 2014 light painting photography contest. Everyone PLEASE VOTE in the comments section of this page to pick your top 3 images, the images all have a number in the title (EXAMPLE… IF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITES IS THE IMAGE TITLED “March 2014 Light Painting Contest 07″ THEN YOU SHOULD PUT THE NUMBER 7 AS ONE OF YOUR CHOICES). Please remember that the theme of this contest was to create a single line light painting, as you will see from the entries there are a few different interpretations of a single line so if the image creator had a solid explanation of how they created the image with one line then it was accepted for the contest.
Voters that do not include 3 unique choices in their post will not be counted. In other words no 1,1,1, or 5,5,5, or 9,9,9…..Please pick your three favorite IMAGES based on the image alone. Vote away!

The light painting photography contest series is sponsored by the best damn companies on earth COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, and LED Flexible! Please support these awesome companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible!

Light Painting Contest Winner, Jan 2014

February 4, 2014 by Jason D. Page

And the winner is… the duo of Heinz-Joerg & Garry Krätz a.k.a. Electrical Movements in the Dark (EMD) for this fantastic light painting.

EMD have been creating their light painting work since 2010 and their work is inspired by the early work of LAPP-Pro and LightArt Photography Master JanLeonardo. For this winning image they left the shutter open for a total of 368 seconds using the technique of capping the lens several times.

Here’s how it happened:

We had the idea to create a fountain made with pyrotechnique. The fireworks should fall down like a little waterfall, combined with a red laser light.

We used a little warehouse for the shooting. In the middle we placed a little tripod with an axis on it. A big red laserpointer (1.5 Watt!) inside a microphone clamp was fitted on the axis with a counterweight on the opposite side.

The laser pointer can be seen here:
https://www.1a-shops.eu/cgi-bin/shopserver/shops/s012216/index.cgi?aktion=um&ps=252931&subid=252931

So we put an add-on on the laserpointer to create the lines on the floor and the wall. It took more than half an hour to get the right position for camera and laser tripod. We always work with an iPad and a CamRanger (http://camranger.com). CamRanger is a great tool for astrophotography, star trails and light painting.

On the axis there was also a stick (1.5 m) with pyro material at the end (and a counterweight on the other side of course). So it was easy to spin it around slowly but exactly.

We made some test shots (white balance, aperture, etc.) to find out the best settings – and how long we have to spin the red laser.

After that, we started spinning the laser for about two minutes, then we covered the lens. I switched out the laser and light on the pyro on the stick. The stick was spinning very slow so we got the effect that the lights fall down towards the ground – like a waterfall. The pyro was burning for about 15 seconds, then we covered the lens again. A few seconds later the pyro went out. So I stopped the spinning, light on the single pyro in the middle, and started again spinning very slowly. We uncovered again the lens for a few seconds, then we stopped.

We made this procedure four or five times again to get the best result. This picture was taken with my Canon EOS 7D using the EF-S 10-22mm lens with 13mm, 368 sec., ISO 100 and f/25.

Of course we wore protection glasses when using the laser! And a fire extinguisher was standing nearby…

Check out more images and info from EMD at these links:
http://www.electricalmovements.de

Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/electricalmovementsinthedark/

Illuminations made by Garry:
http://www.luminale.info

For this awesome winning image EMD will receive a light painting photography prize pack full of treasures from contest sponsors COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, and LED Flexible!

Click here to see the current contest theme and find out how to enter to win your LPP prize pack!

January Light Painting Contest Entries

January 22, 2014 by Jason D. Page

Here are the entries for the January light painting photography contest. Everyone PLEASE VOTE in the comments section of this page to pick your top 3 images, the images all have a number in the title (EXAMPLE… IF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITES IS THE IMAGE TITLED “January Light Painting Contest 07″ THEN YOU SHOULD PUT THE NUMBER 7 AS ONE OF YOUR CHOICES). Please remember that the theme of this contest was Interior Landscape Without People, meaning a light painted inside scene.
Voters that do not include 3 unique choices in their post will not be counted. In other words no 1,1,1, or 5,5,5, or 9,9,9…..Please pick your three favorite IMAGES based on the image alone. Vote away!

Light Painting Photography Contest for Dec/Jan 2014

December 1, 2013 by Jason D. Page

Well, well, well…. for most of the northern hemisphere its starting to get a little chilly outside so the theme for this light painting photography starting December 1st, 2013 is interior landscape. What we are looking for is a room, church, abandoned building, tunnel, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, parking garage, empty hotel lobby, somewhere inside WITHOUT PEOPLE. Get your single best entry in to contest [at] lightpaintingphotography.com by Jan 21, 2014 for a chance to win a featured post on the LPP website and a light painting prize pack from our super awesome sponsors listed below! Please remember to follow the THEME of the contest, include your name in the title, and resize your image to 600 pixels on the longest side and 72 dpi. If you do not follow the theme of the contest your image will not be accepted, and as always no F#@&*! photoshop. Here are a few examples to get you going in the right direction, from Dean Chamberlain, Troy Paiva, and Jan Leonardo!

The light painting photography contest series is sponsored by the best damn companies on earth COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, and LED Flexible! Please support these companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible!

July Light Painting Contest Winner

August 5, 2013 by Jason D. Page

And the winner is… Sean Liew for this spectacular still life light painting!

To create this winning image Sean left his shutter open for 223 second, and shot aperture ƒ/8, ISO200, on a Nikon D300.

A little more about how this light painting was created;
“The photo was taken a few weeks before I moved into my new apartment when I had an empty living room to mess about with light painting.

There were some left over renovation materials lying around, so the textured base you see in the pix was actually a piece of decorative finishing for the TV cabinet. I thought the glossy pattern would be interesting, and pair it with a spray can from the trash bin. I’d only brought a few of my LP tools at the time and the EL wires were new to me back then so I experimented with those on a couple of shots before ending up with the one I submitted. With one finger holding the tip of the EL wire and placing the tip behind the nozzle, the other end of the wire was waved around for quite a bit. Each color was given a ‘slice’ of the color pie while there’s some overlapping in between them. The dots came from a modified little LED white bulb (see picture below) that I usually use to write when doing LP. Did some quick taps around the areas where the EL wires painted, varying the distance with each click to give them a sense of depth with different dot sizes. Lastly, I use that same ‘pen’ tool to shine from the back of the can to highlight the textured base and create an outline around the can.”

Check out more of Sean’s work on his Flickr page here.

For this awesome winning image Sean will receive a light painting photography prize pack full of treasures from contest sponsors COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, and LED Flexible!

Click here to see the current contest theme and find out how to enter to win your LPP prize pack!

July Light Painting Contest Entries

July 22, 2013 by Jason D. Page

Here are the entries for the July light painting photography contest. Everyone PLEASE VOTE in the comments section of this page to pick your top 3 images, the images all have a number in the title (EXAMPLE… IF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITES IS THE IMAGE TITLED “July 2013 Light Painting Contest 07″ THEN YOU SHOULD PUT THE NUMBER 7 AS ONE OF YOUR CHOICES). Please remember that the theme of this contest was Still Life, meaning including an inanimate object in the light painting…

Voters that do not include 3 unique choices in their post will not be counted. In other words no 1,1,1, or 5,5,5, or 9,9,9…..Please pick your three favorite IMAGES based on the image alone. Vote away!

April Light Painting Contest Winner

May 8, 2013 by Jason D. Page

And the winner is…..

Sascha Pseiner for the above light painting image.

Here is Sascha’s description of how the image was created:

For three years I make light art performance photography now. And the time has come where I work more and more with human models and not only with abandoned places. I love to spend hours outside at night and create new forms of light again.

I work a lot with led lenser and color films and also with experimental pyrotechnics.

For this image I worked with a LED lamp mounted on a round wooden pole with a red colored foil on and two studio flashes.

You can find me on facebook www.facebook.com/nichtspunkt and on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/sascha_pseiner/

The light painting photography contest series is sponsored by COAST, the greatest flashlight company on earth! Click the banner to check out and support the company that supports our art form!

Click here to see the theme for the next light painting photography contest and how you can enter to win.

April Light Painting Photography Contest Entries

April 23, 2013 by Jason D. Page

Here are the entries for the March/April light painting photography contest. Everyone PLEASE VOTE in the comments section of this page to pick your top 3 images, the images all have a number in the title (EXAMPLE… IF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITES IS THE IMAGE TITLED “APRIL CONTEST 07″ THEN YOU SHOULD PUT THE NUMBER 7 AS ONE OF YOUR CHOICES). The theme of this contest was open so anything and everything goes…

Voters that do not include 3 unique choices in their post will not be counted. In other words no 1,1,1, or 5,5,5, or 9,9,9…..Please pick your three favorite IMAGES based on the image alone.

This light painting contest is sponsored by the greatest flashlight company in the whole universe COAST! The Winner of the light painting contest wins a prize light painting photography prize pack with super awesome Coast Flashlights!!!

February Light Painting Contest Winner

March 2, 2013 by Jason D. Page

And the winner is…..

Oliver Kretschmann for the above kinetic light painting image.

Here is Olivers description of how the image was created:

My entry for the february contest has been taken from the series “Walk in the light park”. I captured a row ofpark lanterns in my hometown Emmerich (Germany). I used the zoomlens and a strict rectangular movement of the camera to create this spatial-architectural illusion. The series contains nearly 40 photos in which I try to explore many different variantions of this setting and theme.

You can find a selection of the series and much more on my flickr-site: www.flickr.com/photos/kreto170

Click the link the images in this series are pretty awesome.

LPP would like to say a special THANK YOU to all the students that participated in this months contest!

Click here to see the theme for the next light painting photography contest and how you can enter to win.

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