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This is an old light painting campaign from sprint way back in 2008. They worked with Lichtfaktor to produce a series of images used in a global advertising campaign. Hopefully this can give you some inspiration and show you one way you can take light painting into commercial applications…
Check out this rad stop motion light painting music video for the song Helsinki Safari by Hahmo. Created by light painting artist Janne Parviainen, a.k.a JANNEPAINT and Ville Olaskari….. Made up of over 800 individual exposures it took two days to shooting and 5 days of editing to create this piece. The exposure lengths vary anywhere from 15 seconds to over a minute.
Ben Parker has only been light painting for two months and this is his first attempt at a light painting animation. Pretty rad for a virgin….
Hey Ben tell me a little more about yourself and this piece..
How old are you?
26
How long have you been light painting?
About 2 months
Who is your favorite light painter, who’s work inspires you?
TwinCitiesBrightest is pretty awesome
Was this your first light painting creation?
No, About 2 months ago we were camping at the beach. My girlfriend was taking a
picture in the dark so the camera auto set to a longer exposure. My daughter then
ran through her shot holding a lantern. After that we drew all night! I’ll attach a
couple pics from that night.
Why did you create this stop motion light painting?
I wanted to do something unique.. After coming home from camping and googling light
painting I saw I had a long way to go to be one of the best. I’ve seen a few other
light stop video’s out there but only a handful are really any good.
How long did it take?
I had a lot of distractions, especially people wanting to eat in the kitchen. But I
think I did it over 4 nights. It took 448 shots that were all 30 second exposures
with a 10 second timer. And 448 is just what was usable. I probably took around 650.
So it was very time consuming, but well worth the effort in the end.
Why PB&J?
It seemed easy lol
Anything else in the works?
I’m working an intro to put at the front of future video’s and I have a short clip
(aiming for 20s) I’m working on now. Its about a bird getting revenge on some
hunters.. I have a whole list of things I really want to do, but I’m clearly not pro
at this yet so I’m putting some of my favorite ideas on the back burner till I learn
the trade a bit better.
Do you have a website?
Not Yet!
Anything else you want to add???
This was my first stop motion video (light painting or not) and I learned a LOT
along the way. You can tell in the beginning I shot during the day and I kind of
show up. I also dont have a tripod or remote shutter release which adds a lot of
camera shake. A tripod is first on my list of things to buy. Along with countless
other mistakes I made. But I’d recommend everyone try it out! I had a ton of fun.
Alright man thanks for your time and cant wait to see ham and cheese next…
Anybody know if the 3D light painting look created in this video is legit? It looks like its the real thing…. if it is legit anybody who did it, maybe PIPSLAB? Please post answers if u got em in the comments section, I would like to find out more about this cool little number….. Thanks.
Music video by Ellie Goulding performing Lights. (C) 2011 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
View Finder “Night Song: The Light Painting Photography of Dean Chamberlain”.
TV series that delves into the mindset and process of visionary photographers such as Dean Chamberlain. This is a creative ride along exploration that is as informative as it is entertaining.
New Freezelight Video
Client: Russian Festival of Science (Moscow State University)
Idea and production: Art-project Freezelight.ru (Moscow)
Artists: Roman Palchenkov, Artem Dolgopolov
Sound-design: Gleb Bondarenko
Producer: Julia Fateeva
Production date: Aug-Sept 2011
Location: Moscow, Russia.
Cameras:
for animations, stopmotions & timelapses – Canon 1Ds mark III
for video – Canon 1D mark IV
Lenses:
Canon EF 15mm f/2.8
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L
Canon EF 400mm f/4.0 DO
Canon 2x EF Extender II
Will Baltazar sent in the light painting stop animation. This is the first attempt at a light painting animation for this freshman light painter, the results are pretty cool. Will made this piece in his house over the course of a week, check out the interview below.
LPP ∇ Its a cool piece man, I can appreciate the amount of work you put into it.
What camera/equipment did you use?
WB ∇ Thank you soo much! The camera i used was a Canon Digital rebel xsi with an 18-55mm lens. As for the equipment, i used small keychain leds and electronic glowsticks. Very small budget.
LPP ∇ How long did it take to shoot it?
WB ∇ The shooting process was about 30 hours, but i stretched that over the course of a week, since i had to wake up to go to high school each morning. Id set a quota for the amount of shots id want to get done each night, so having a goal helped.
LPP ∇ What did you learn from making the video?
WB ∇ If I learned anything from this video, its patience. Drawing and tweaking and redrawing and cheking pictures hundreds of times is no easy task. I also learned a lof of different ways to use my lights as far as effects i could make with them.
LPP ∇ Are you going to make another one?
WB ∇ I do plan on making another one, some time in the future. The time in between will be spent by taking my light painting to new levels, so that when the next video is born, its quality will surpass this one.
LPP ∇ Did you shoot it alone or with help?
WB ∇ I shot this totally alone. The only “help” i had was the model agreeing to pose throughout such a lengthy process, but the drawings, editing, directing and everything else that went into it was all me.
LPP ∇ What inspired you to make the piece?
WB ∇ My inspiration to make this LP video was kindof testing my creative limits. I wanted a medium that was difficult and flexible enough to where if i did it and did it well, i (and people that watched it) could have a glimpse of just how powerful imagination is. And i also wanted to prove to myself that i could stick to this project and finish it.
LPP ∇ Who is your favorite LP artist?
WB ∇ My favorite LP artist has got to be this guy on Flickr. His username is like {tcb}. In being lp artists, we find ourselves able to look at other pieces and decypher how they managed to execute them, but tcb leaves me clueless, and i find that refreshing.
LPP ∇ How did you discover LP?
WB ∇ I discovered LP through google. When i first got ibto photography, id spend a lot of time googling tutorials, and among them was one for long exposure photography. The examples they posted were of LP. and i went from there.
LPP ∇ What was the first LP video you saw that inspired you to create your own?
WB ∇ The first LP Video i saw that inspired me was called “Light warfare” on Youtube by Freddie Wong. I thought it was so magical and creative itd be a crime for me not to try.
LPP ∇ Any other info you would like to add?
WB ∇ Additional info is just that this was made in my bedroom, at home, with the help of a friend and only about 30$ on materials. It was made when i was 17 (im 18 now). So, if people have a beautiful vision, i dont believe that the lack of professional resources or education is reason to not make it a reality. Anything is possible.
Light painting artist Jadikan-LP teamed up with film maker Olivier Fanchon to put together a pretty awesome light painting piece called “-Behind The Lens-“. Check it out…
P.S. Can some one please explain the camera set up in the end (image below)….. Guilhem?
Even though it has only been on the great intraweb for about a week you may have already seen this new light painting animation from the creative minds of OH YEAH WOW and ALL INDIA RADIO. “Rippled” has already racked up more than 80,000 views on youtube and that is because of the tireless work that went into the making of and promotion of this awesome piece. Rippled is one of the best light painting animations I have seen in a while so I thought I would ask Darcy Prendergast, one of the minds behind this piece, some questions about the making of this little monster. Check out the video and read the full interview below.
Over 6 months in the making and almost 3 years on from ‘Lucky’ their first light painting collaboration Darcy Prendergast and the creative team at OH YEAH WOW have again paired with the beautiful music of ALL INDIA RADIO to bring you their latest music video, ‘Rippled’. Painstakingly animated frame by frame, the piece is all shot in camera, by real people, in the real world, using long exposure techniques… We hope you enjoy.
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LPP ∇ So Rippled is one of the best light painting animations I have seen in a long time, where did the inspiration and concept come from?
DP ∇ Why thank you! We sure worked damn hard on it to ensure it was right up there…
Well the inspiration came from this god awful German graffiti crew who were ‘tagging’ the sky with light. They’d edited some of their images with an equally awful German Hip Hop track, at like a frame rate of 1FPS. It was more a slideshow really, but it then got me thinking about stitching more images together at a proper frame rate, and soon after the foundations of Lucky were in place.
LPP ∇ What the hell kind of critter is that thing anyway? It sort of looks like an overweight cat that ran into a parked car….
DP ∇ I think you aptly describe him.
LPP ∇ Where did you shoot Rippled?
DP ∇ It was shot in various abandoned warehouses around Melbourne… We wanted to shoot in a somewhat dystopian landscape. There is something so eerily beautiful about these areas, that are surrounded by various hives of activity but have been forgotten about by society itself.
LPP ∇ I saw that it took over 6 months to create, how many nights did you actually shoot this piece?
DP ∇ We weren’t shooting every night, but it wasn’t far from it. I think its the first animated piece I’ve ever done where we did multiple re shoots, planned out camera moves, starting times and things of this nature. After Lucky, we knew we wanted to re visit the medium- but didn’t want to re visit it too soon. We wanted to hone our craft and ensure we were going to push beyond what we thought possible. I guess that is the reason I was so pedantic about it… I knew how good this piece could be if we got it exactly right. That was partly the reason for it taking 6 months to create- that an animation is an inherently slow process.
LPP ∇ How many individual photos did you take?
DP ∇ Over 10,000 I think, not that I counted…
LPP ∇ What was the average exposure time of a single shot?
DP ∇ Thats something you’ve really got to find a balance with, depending on how well lit a scene is. If its a relatively bright shot already, a 10 second exposure would suffice- but might not give you enough time to complete your drawing. On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you have a really dark shot with a 30 second exposure- you may only need 5 to draw the character… and you’re standing around for 25 seconds every frame, which kind of kills the mood. We found that 15-20 seconds worked in most situations, but we steer clear of any street lights and things like that where possible.
LPP ∇ In all those nights there had to be something crazy that happened, would you like to share anything?
DP ∇ Ha! Abandoned factories will definitely serve up some strange encounters… we almost got in a fight with a group of drunks who knocked the camera 3 quarters through a shot. That was fun to line back up again. Ummm but I think the craziest thing we saw though was ‘the naked chromer’. We took all of gear into one of the compounds we were shooting in and here is this guy about 10 metres away, surrounded by spray cans, completely naked, huffing away. We couldn’t help but laugh… but stopped when his head slowly turned (reminiscent of a scene from the exorcist or something) to reveal these
glassy yet evil eyes and a silver mouth. We found a new room to shoot in that night.
LPP ∇ The rippled effects are awesome what are they made of?
DP ∇ Our trusty friend, alfoil. We made a whole bunch of replacement ripples that we lugged around in a big garbage bag every night.
LPP ∇ Did you have the entire animation scripted or did you come up with stuff while on location?
DP ∇ Unlike Lucky, this wasn’t an unplanned ‘have fun with the medium’ kind of approach. We still had fun- we’d still have a few drinks whilst shooting, but we were never stuck for things to shoot. I knew what themes I wanted to play with and whilst its an abstract narrative, there is still very much a narrative involved. Lucky was spontaneous- we would leave the studio as soon as night fell and spend an hour or 2 on set every night just trying to think of what to shoot. There wasn’t much of a direction. Whilst thoroughly planned, Rippled was a visceral formation, we’d still experiment, find new techniques, and chase down things we thought had potential.
LPP ∇ What was the most difficult part of the project?
DP ∇ Motivation is always tough I guess, because you’re out shooting until the sun rises most nights. You’re sleeping patterns are thrown even further out of whack, which was especially hard for the crew- most of which have part time jobs and such. Its tough when you wake up, and its only a couple of hours before you have to go and do it all again. This being said- we all
believed in the project. It was a labour of love, and we knew the result would be worth it if we just saw it through.
LPP ∇ What was the best part of the project?
DP ∇ I think just shooting with my close friends. Under the cover of night, we’d bump all our gear into the warehouses, have a few drinks, play some music, hang out with creative purpose. A project like this wouldn’t be possible without people like them and a team like that…
The way we work is foreign and insane to most, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
LPP ∇ Thanks for your time awesome work.
I have been meaning to post this awesome night photography/light painting video by Lance Keimig and Scott Martin for some time now but somehow it slipped thru the cracks in my mind…. without further adieu, enjoy.
Night Photography: Finding Your Way In The Dark.
This film documents a Full Moon Night Photography Workshop in the Big Bend region of West Texas led by photographers Scott Martin and Lance Keimig. Scott and Lance teach Night Photography and Light Painting workshops in various locations around the country. Learn more at on-sight.com and thenightskye.com. Learn more about the filmmakers at walleyfilms.com.