July 15th-17th, 2016…. Schedule your flights and book your hotels rooms if you can because the 2nd International Light Art Convention in Oviedo Spain is a Light Painting Event you do not want to miss!

This International Light Art Event will host some of the best Light Painters and Night Photographers in the world. There will be so much to do your creative mind might just go into overload! Some of the events set to take place include speeches, light painting presentations, master classes, street spectacles, Live light painting shows, group light painting night sesions and much more. If you are just getting starting in Light Painting or have been with us for years there will be something for everyone at 2nd International Light Art Convention!

If you are not able to make the event in person you still have an opportunity to be participate by showcasing your best light painting artwork. The Light Painting World Alliance will be putting on their 5th LPWA exhibition. To exhibit your work you must be a LPWA member (its free) and submit 3 of your best light painting works of art. You can click right HERE to find out all the information on submitting to the LPWA Exhibition.

Thank you to LPWA, Children of Darklight, and the City of Oviedo for creating a spectacular Light Painting event!

I made a new video tutorial showing how to create wings like the ones above using the feather plexiglass from the Light Painting Brushes, hope you enjoy.

Light Painting Tutorial: Wings from Light Painting Photography on Vimeo.

Light Painting Tutorial: Wings
In this light painting photography tutorial Jason D. Page shows how to create wings using the feather plexiglass attachment from the Light Painting Brushes system. As you will see the new feather plexiglass light painting tool is also great for creating light writing and light graffiti, light orbs, abstract light painting and even beings made of light.

Basics of Light Painting can be found here: vimeo.com/107517730

Thank you to Jeswin Rebello, Efren Herrera, and Darren Hopkins for the inspiration and for contributing images to this light painting tutorial.

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People please be smarter than this. Some jackass burnt down another landmark that was beloved by the community and photographers for miles around. I am pretty sure whoever did this is really sorry and didn’t have the intention of burning this building to the ground but just in case you didn’t know, Burning Hot Steel Wool will set things on fire especially historic landmarks made of WOOD, please be smarter than the material you are working with! via PetaPixel.

Here is a tutorial, note it will burn your house down:

Yes thats right Light Painting Videography… Light Painter Patrick Rochon has just released a trippy new light painting music video that he created along with Annie Pigeon, Pierre Tremblay, and Thomas Csano. Endless hours over a 3 month period were spent creating the Polyday video for APIGEON and everything you see was illuminated with hand held light sources! Pushing the boundaries of video and light painting Patrick said “This became an “out of the box” music video experiment not following any conventions”. Check out the video and making of video below. For the full details head over to Patricks blog HERE.

APigeon – Polyday (Official Video)

MAKING OF POLYDAY

Light Painting Photographer Eric Pare has created a light painting style that is instantly recognizable as his own using a common and inexpensive piece of lighting equipment called a Fluorescent Tube Guard. By simply inserting one or two lights into the end of the tube guard Eric has essentially created a giant light saber that he is using to create his signature work. Eric first spotted the the magic tubes at the TAP Plastic store while he was in San Francisco holding a Light Painting Workshop. Since that special day less than one year ago Eric has traveled the globe with tubes in hand creating exquisite imagery along with his partner in crime the lovely Kim Henry. Check out some of his incredible images and the just released behind the scenes video below called “Signs of Light”! Also make sure to join Eric’s Facebook group where you can learn all about his work and light painting techniques and for even more images and info check out the full Signs of Light project Here.

Recently Photographer Erik Christian shared these really cool Light Painting Portraits that he created for the Varsity 845 All-Star Basketball teams. To create these images Erik used a mix of constant light covered with colored gels matching the team’s colors and the pop of a couple of off camera strobes to freeze the motion of the athletes. Check out the images and the behind the scenes video below showing just how these perfectly executed Light Painting Portraits were created.

Eric Paré has just released another awesome light painting video project called KHAOS LP. This short video was all lit by hand in one night using a single flashlight and a 4×6 plexi blade. Prepare your eyes for 30 seconds of Light Painting KHAOS… For the full story check out Eric’s Site HERE

Eric says” We’re proud to release today KHAOS LP (the light-painting mashup of the short film KHAOS) as well as the first online version of of the original short movie itself, after a succesful presentation at Les Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois. The light-painting part has been all shot in one crazy night at my studio with 32 cameras and an acrylic plate. Everything is lit by hand in one second. The stop-motion is created one frame at a time by carefully changing pose by about one inch between each shot. I managed to completley disapear by wearing my black ninja costume.”

The 360 degree stop-motion technique I’m doing is fully explained in my short documentary LightSpin.

Synopsis
The paths of Nicholas, Judith and Clara cross accidentally inside a hotel room. A no man’s land which is the gateway to another dimension. The darker side of the psyche, this dimension is where subconscious nightmares and fantasies become real.

KHAOS LP credits:
Project director – Kays Mejri
360° bullet-time light-painting – Eric Paré
Video editor – Ange Amargier
Actors – Julian Fiset, Melissa Paulson, Hannah Dorozio
Original soundtrack – Anonspeak
Art director – Jessica Surendorff

Getting ready for a night of Light Painting takes a little bit of work and it takes some preparation. We have all been there, getting ready for a night out and now we need to decided what tools to bring. The fact is, the easier our Light Painting tools are to use the more likely we are to use them. Take the PixelStick, arguably the most technically advanced light painting device created to date, however this tool takes a tiny bit of work to set up. I know there are a few of you PixelStick owners that have left this light painting tool behind because you didn’t want to have to tighten down those screws and put that “thing” together. Well fear the screw twisting and plugging cables no more because John Griffin, creator of the SpiroJib, has shared a clever “Hack” to make a PixelStick ready to use right out of the bag. Check it out below…

Here are a few shots Johnny created recently while sharing the Light Painting Art Form with his local School.

Light Painting Photographer Eric Paré has been absolutely killing it recently, putting out wildly gorgeous images and collaborating with industry giants like Adobe. This week Eric has taken over Adobe’s Instagram page, (yes I know there will be some tears shed but some of Eric’s work is edited, ?) He has also released a BTS video showing his LIVE unedited Light Painting work in the 360 Bullet Time Light Painting Photo Booth that he set up at Adobe MAX last year! With over 1000 participants over the 3 day event Eric shot nearly 4000 sets of images on a 32 camera array exposing many new people to the Light Painting Art Form! Check out the super cool 360º gifs and full video below… Congrats on all your success Eric!

Project created for Adobe in Los Angeles, California during AdobeMAX 2015.

For this event, 32 cameras were used in perfect sync. Each picture is lit by hand in about one second. We met nearly 1000 participants and created over 4000 pictures over the three days of the event, meaning over 128000 images.

Created with the help of Russell Preston Brown, Kim Henry, Jeremy Lloubes, Tony Stranges, Ed McDonough, Johan Silva, Guillermo Castellanos, Matthias Thomas Lamotte and Ange Amargier.

For even more 360 action check EricPare.com/360