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Lightmark, Light Painting in Greenland OmU

September 9, 2013 by Jason D. Page

Check out this video of the blissful light painting duo of Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke better known as Lightmark on a light painting expedition to Greenland where they created the beautiful image below “No. 66”.

“Making of” from Lightmark No.66
For more information follow: www.lightmark.de

About Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke

A moon of light in the noon of night

“Lightmark,” the body of work by Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke, was created by photographing moving light sources at night. The resultant ethereal images inhabit a dramatic and often eerie landscape. Long exposures , up to an hour in length, are required to allow torchlight to take form and for the very low level of ambient light, usually from the moon, to illuminate the scenery. Seen through the viewfinder, the landscape often appears as solidly black. Using a digital medium format camera for their photography, Goepel and Warnecke focus on photographic techniques rather than post processing to achieve the results they are aiming for. The couple travels across the world to find hidden landscapes that are yet to be captured and portrayed as a light painting

International Light Painting Awards 2013

September 1, 2013 by Jason D. Page

Ladies and gentlemen the International Light Painting Awards 2013 hosted by LAPP (Light Art Performance Photography) founder Jan Leonardo are now open!

You can enter 2 images and its an open light painting contest (no themes or categories) so all light paintings will be accepted and judged against one another, “Whether a landscape is illuminated by a torch or a light ball is formed under the Eiffel tower – this photo award is dedicated to light painting. Only photos which are actively painted with artificial light are accepted in this competition. This includes accentuation and illumination of landscapes, architecture or persons.”

The only rule is “Manipulation by computer (composing, combination of layers or multiple exposures) is not accepted and is banned from the competition. The photo has priority!”

With a extensive and experienced jury of light painting artist and medium founders, this is a great opportunity to have your work seen and critiqued on an international level. Here is a list of Jurors:

If you haven’t already head over to http://www.lightart-photography.de/lp-award/ The DEADLINE to submit is 10-15-2013 so get to work and make sure you are submitting you BEST WORK…

Light Against Cancer

August 28, 2013 by Jason D. Page

Just about everyone of us has been effected by cancer in some way, if the disease has never crept into your own or a loved ones life count yourself as very blessed.

Light painting photographer David Schlaich’s story is not any different from most everyone else that has battled one form of cancer or another with one exception, it took FIVE years after his first symptoms began to show for his diagnosis. It took five years of David being sick before he happened to see a different doctor because his regular doctor was out one of the days he was sick enough to end up in the doctors office. This “different” doctor decided to take an x-ray of Davids chest which is when they found his first tumor and David was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. David says “One of the reasons I talk about this with the photos I post in Flickr is to get people to realize the importance of seeing different doctors if the one you have is not working for you. I wish I knew that earlier.” That astounding fact is just one of the reasons he is so passionate cancer awareness.

David is still fighting and shinning light onto this dark subject with his own work, and with the project he founded LIGHTAGAINSTCANCER.COM he is fighting for everyone. With Light Against Cancer light painters from around the world can donate their work, then those donated light paintings will eventually be published in a book that David hopes will “not only raise money but also bring about a desire for other to express themselves and bring about a discussion that will increase cancer awareness and motivate others to help people with cancer.”

Below are a few of David’s light paintings (NOTE the use of numerous prescription pill bottles used in his work, these are his own collection from the medications he has taken), check out more about this great light painting project on Flickr HERE and the Website HERE, and most importantly please spread this project so that it can get the support it deserves!

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!

Van Elder FIRE RAIN Light Painting Tutorial

July 26, 2013 by Jason D. Page

Screw you steel wool your sooooo 2012.

Barry Elder of Van Elder Photography has taken inspiration from photographic superstar Von Wong and some technical know-how from Tamed Fire on YouTube to create his unique version of the Sparkle Poi. Barry used this new invention to create some fantastic light painting fire rain effects, best of all he created a very detailed text and video tutorial for the rest of us that don’t want to go through all that trouble of figuring things out on our own.

Below is the video tutorial but I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU CLICK HERE to read the full text of this fire rain light painting tutorial and safety information.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS ONE KIDS SO PLEASE BE CAREFUL AND DONT BURN YOURSELF OR YOUR HOUSE DOWN UNLESS THAT IS YOUR PLAN BECAUSE YOUR NEED THE INSURANCE MONEY.

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!

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!

Patrick Rochon The Light Painting KATA

July 19, 2013 by Jason D. Page

Incredible new images and a beautiful explanation of his light painting work from Patrick Rochon. The Light Painting KATA.

Getting to the essence of what I do,
I now understand that light painting is above all, movement.
To me, it is a mix of dancing and martial arts.
Light moves everywhere all the time.
Our bodies are emitting light and expressing something subtle but important.
We must see it and understand it.
We must reveal it’s secrets and knowledge.
I believe it is a key connected to our consciousness.

The light painting KATA is the expression of the light we move and create everyday and the trace we leave behind.
-PATRICK ROCHON

From Wikipedia:
In Japanese language, kata (though written as 方) is a frequently-used suffix meaning “way of doing,” with emphasis on the form and order of the process.
Other meanings are “training method” and “formal exercise.”

The goal of a painter’s practicing, for example, is to merge his consciousness with his brush; the potter’s with his clay; the garden designer’s with the materials of the garden.
Once such mastery is achieved, the theory goes, the doing of a thing perfectly is as easy as thinking it.

MORE IMAGES ON PATRICKS WEBSITE HERE.

Pershing Light Painting Yacht Art

July 14, 2013 by Jason D. Page

Pershing Yachts a super luxury brand of Motor Yacht teamed up with the creative minds of LSD to create this epic light painting project. Check this out and be jealous…

JADIKAN Light Painting For SNAM 365

July 8, 2013 by Jason D. Page

Light Painting Photographer Jadikan-LP has been hard at work on some really cool light painting projects recently. First of all he redesigned his website and updated it with all new photos, videos, and an animated 3D light painting gif which you should check out HERE.

Another really cool light painting project that he recently completed was SNAM 365. SNAM is an Italian natural gas company and they were looking to create a calendar “to communicate their new visual identity”. Each of the light paintings that Jadikan created depicts a different aspect of SNAM’s business model (TALENT, PEOPLE, TEAM BUILDING, SYSTEM, INTERNATIONALITY, AND VISION). All of the images were then edited together by LSD Studios to create a awesome foldable 50×150 metalic printed calendar.

Jadikan says “It was a very good experience and collaboration, I’m really happy with the result (even it can not be considered as a “pure” lightpainting – see the SOOC/Photoshop debate…)

BONUS: Here is a cool behind the scene video, with some rare shots of the very elusive and mysterious light painting genius JADIKAN at work.

SNAM 365 days of tomorrow (2mn50 – 2013) from jadikan LP on Vimeo.

Pete Eckert – Dancing on The Edge of Perception

July 4, 2013 by Jason D. Page

Light Painting Photographer Pete Eckert was recently featured in The Avant/Garde Diaries. This is an awesome series of videos that you should check out HERE if you have never seen them before.

Pete Eckert – Dancing on The Edge of Perception from The Avant/Garde Diaries on Vimeo.

The blind photographer explains the improbability of his vocation and how the eye is not always the most important thing in taking a picture. More on theavantgardediaries.com

Produced, Filmed & Editing by Oddiseefilms / Associate Production by Julia Wilczok / Music by Bunnystripes

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