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The top 100 light paintings for the 1st International Light Painting Awards have been selected and the results are mind blowing. All involved should be extremely proud. You want to be inspired by some masterful works of art LOOK here:
TOP 100 FOR THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL LIGHT PAINTING AWARDS!
“We made a 2 minute lightpainting photo of an old walk`s mosaic in a centric park of Oviedo. The photo was taken from 12 meters high by two camera operators, while 19 people where painting simultaneously with lights, well sincronized and organized. The photo was taken at F16 and ISO 100. Many streetlamps where turned off for the event. The kiosk workers also participated in the photo by turning on the lights just 3 seconds for its right exposition and then turned them off again. People worked very well from the beginning and we got the final shot at the third attempt.
We are proud of our sponsors Led Lenser and Herramientas Lightpainting, which provided us with the best torches and lightpainting tools, without their support this would have been much more difficult. It was a great experience and we are very happy with the final photo”
Making of Video:
October 1st and 2nd Light Painting Photographer Patrick Rochon gave a free light painting workshop that was absolutely amazing, if you missed it that sucks for you but you do still have a chance.
Patrick is an awesome guy and incredible light painter who inspires so many of us. In the 2 day workshop Patrick shared many of tools, tips, and his own personal trade secrets that he has used to create mind blowing images over the last 20 years.
How to light paint with machines is a little video created by Bastien Sumi that may spark an idea or two, check it out. If you have any questions Bastein is happy to help hit him up at bastien.sumi [at] gmail.com
Lechuzas are witches disguised as owls. These owls they woot at you, they call for you, they are looking for children! If you woot back the owl will attack you! If you run inside a few minutes later you will hear knocking at your door its always an old lady asking to borrow salt but be warned it a distraction, she is there to take the child…
The story of the Lechuza is just one of the urban legends that light painter Jake Ramirez will be illustrating for the book Beneath Texas! Those of us that are familiar with light painter Jake Ramirez’s work know that many of his images have an erie feel that remind you of some ghostly horror story from your childhood, so its the perfect fit.
Together with writer and long time friend Timothy Danger and backed by Filmexchange.org Jake will travel to many of Texas’s most notorious and desolate places and use light painting to recreate scenes from the darkest tales Texas has to offer, and he plans to shoot on film.
The guys are trying to raise some funds to get everything going so if have the means to help out Click HERE.
Light painting photographer Jadikan has a bunch of awesome ideas to unleash upon the world. The latest of which is a project is called “La Bifurk”. La Bifurk is a collaboration between Jadikan and photographers Damien Leleux and Nicolas Bernard of The Odoxo Agency.
Heres the basics of the project…
Step one, the trio got with the good folks over at Google to be “authorized” as photographers for Google’s latest and greatest in street view technology “Virtual Tour”.
Step two was to find the perfect location, a community collective space and skate park called La Bifurk fit the bill.
Step three, light paint… They actually had to do the shoot twice Jadikan says “The first time we put some led on the skaters but the result was a bit messy (low ambient light to fight with, because they can’t skate in total darkness), so we decided to do it again few weeks later with more “lightpainting” with people.”
As you will see the results are pretty cool. Here comes the best part as far as LPP is concerned… Never missing the opportunity to get LPP involved I asked Jadikan to hide the LPP logo in the light painting virtual tour somewhere. Being the good guy he is Jadikan took one of the LPP Logo stickers and placed it in a subtle location in the skate park, the first person to find it and send in a screen shot to contest(@)lightpaintingphotography.com is going to win the insane new HP7R from Coast and some other treasures from Jadikan.
What you need to do is read and click on the link below then use the arrows to navigate around, its not going to be easy to find the logo but the prize pack your gonna get for finding it first is worth well over $100 bucks so get to work.
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
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…
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!
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!