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Light Painting Caligraphy Tutorial by Dee Light

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Light Painting Photographer Dee Light specializes in a form of light drawing known as Light Calligraphy. I had the pleasure of meeting and shooting with Dee about a year ago and to see him create is work in real life is something special. His movements are smooth and elegant and I was really impressed with his general spacial awareness and the way he moved his lights through the air. Dee has created a nice video tutorial showing how he creates his Light Calligraphy along with some help from fellow Light Painting Artist Chanette Manso, check it out below!

Light Painting Calligraphy by Dee Light

  • Light Painting Calligraphy by Dee Light
  • Light Painting Calligraphy by Dee Light
  • Light Painting Calligraphy by Dee Light

New Chris Benbow Light Painting Tutorials

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Chris Benbow has been busting A** producing some really great light painting video tutorials. Check out these two newbies….

P.S. Chris’s wife Laura has been behind the camera filming these for everyone to enjoy and learn from, much like my own lovely wife she helps a lot and deserves some credit as well sooooo thanks Laura….

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Chris Benbow Spinning Wire Wool Tutorial

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A basic tutorial to wire wool spinning by Chris Benbow.

Chris was also kind enough to supply the readers of LightPaintingPhotography.com with all of his detailed camera and rigging information. Thanks Chris.

Camera: Canon EOS 5Dmkii
Lens: Sigma 15mm Fisheye
Shutter Release: Hähnel Wired Release

Camera Settings
ISO: 500
Aperture: F/3.2
Shutter Speed: BULB -88 Seconds on continuous mode-
Wire Wool: Oakley Steel Wool (Wire Wool comes in 3 textures –Fine, Medium, Coarse- Fine burns best, Coarse won’t even light)

Chris Benbow Driving Video Tutorial

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Light painting artist Chris Benbow has been working on a series of light painting tutorial videos. Here is the first in the series.

Chris was also kind enough to supply the readers of LightPaintingPhotography.com with all of his detailed camera and rigging information. Thanks Chris.

Camera: Canon EOS 5Dmkii
Lens: Sigma 15mm Fisheye
Shutter Release: Hähnel Wired Release
Suction Cup: Manfrotto 241FB Suction Cup With Flat Base
Tripod Head: Manfrotto 804RC2

Camera Settings
ISO: 100
Aperture: F/5.6
Shutter Speed: 10 Seconds on continuous mode

Light Painting 101: On Camera Light Source Tutorial

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Light Painting Tutorial: Light Painting 101 from Light Painting Photography on Vimeo.


This is the first in the 3 part light painting video tutorial series, Light Painting 101. The Light Painting 101 series will cover the three basic light painting photography techniques: On Camera, Off Camera, and Kinetic Light Painting Photography. In this light painting tutorial you will learn what the 3 basic light painting techniques are and what you need to create a light painting photograph. In this particular video I will show you a little about the “On Camera” light painting technique by showing you how to paint an octopus that lives in the woods?

 

Gel Card Tip: A Stolen Idea

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Gel Holder

If your like most of us light painting photographers you’ve probably got a bunch of gels laying all over the place, when you go out to shoot you fumble around in the dark trying to find the green only to flash a shot of blue into your image, well this is another super simple light painting photography tip/tutorial that will solve your problems. I didn’t come up with this gel holder I totally stole the idea from seeing pictures of other peoples light painting photography tool kits I think it was either TCB’s or Trevor’s. Anyway thought I would share the tip I robbed, enjoy…CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL TUTORIAL

 

Light Painting Photography Tutorial: Custom White Balance

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In this light painting photography tutorial you will learn a little bit about white balance and how to set a custom white balance to created a colored effect for your light painting images so they can stay SOOC. Created by Jason D. Page.

 

Light Painting Photography Tutorial: Custom White Balance from Light Painting Photography on Vimeo.

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Understanding Color Temperature

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We all know how easy it is to tweak the hues of a photo in post production software like the dreaded photo@#!%, a word we do not speak here at light painting photography, but do you understand what the hell you are actually doing when you change the color? Well friends what you are doing is changing the temperature of the image. All light color is measured in degrees Kelvin, named after engineer and physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. We could get into his scientific theory but I would have to pretend to understand it which I don’t. Basically in the world of light painting photography all you need to know is that the lower the Kelvin temperature the “warmer” or more yellow the light appears and the higher Kelvin temperature the  “cooler” or more blue the light will appear. In the next post I’m going to get into white balance, why color temperature matters, and how to get some cool effects by tweaking the white balance of your camera in turn changing the color temperature of your image and keeping your light painting images SOOC (Straight out of Camera). Check the chart below.