For the promotion and progression of Light Painting Art and Artist.
Lightplot is a robotic 3D light painting system created by Ben Cowell-Thomas of ReThinkFX. Animation is exported from 3DS Max, and imported into the Lightplot software which then drives a robotic arm to draw the models in the air. The software also controls a DSLR camera to take long exposure photographs of each frame of animation. Would love to see what Lichtfaktor could do with this!
Want to learn more check out the FULL MAKING OF ARTICLE HERE!
Click Here to see the theme for the May Light Painting Contest.
The live light painting game just changed. I have known about the development of this for sometime now and had the hardest time keeping my mouth shut but now I can tell the world….. We have all seen the live light painting videos and we sit back and say damn I wish I was smarter, or if only I knew a computer genius who could make me something so I could do that. Well, well, well, enter Mr. Josh Beckwith, a computer genius at Posit Labs who has a passion for light painting photography. Josh with some help from light painting photographer Joerg Miedza (Half of the former LAPP-PRO) has created Light Paint Live, a very easy to use live light painting program that can give you some pretty awesome results.
Light Paint Live has a multitude of controls that allows you to fine tune your desired look and feel of the light. The possibilities for this software are really endless! You could create your own light painting performance act and head to broadway or simply use it as a realtime display for where you are when creating your own light painting masterpiece.
There are 3 Different Versions of the software available; LPL Instant, LPL Heavy, and LPL Android. Josh also has an iOS version in the works as well as a few more tricks up his sleeve for the future. You can try the LPL Instant for free, the LPL Heavy Version with all the manual controls will cost you 5 Bucks, but it will be the best 5 dollars you have ever spent on any light painting tool.
Check out LightPaintLive.com and get it NOW.
I would like to officially welcome light painting photographer Pete Eckert to light painting photography website. Pete creates his images in a slightly different way than some other light painters relying more on the senses of sound, touch, and memory. He has been creating light painting images since 2000 and has had his work exhibited on an international level. Check out his full artist profile HERE!
Check out this super cool animation of 3D light painting photography using a Bullet Time Rig. This video is going viral, great exposure for light painting!
After 3 months shooting on location with the bullet time rig around China, it’s great tobe back in the studio experimenting.
Splice Boys: Tom Brandon, Richard Kendall and Crew,
– 96 camera rig, 30s sequential exposure.
– A lot of running around with lights.
– Also combining manual and pulsing strobe flash.
– All real in camera imaging.
Here is a cool link to how to make your own ghetto bullet time rig. Still pretty expensive but worth a look. How To Enter The Ghetto Matrix.
Here are the entries for the April light painting photography contest. Everyone PLEASE VOTE in the comment section of the 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 “APRIL CONTEST 07″ THEN YOU SHOULD PUT THE NUMBER 7 AS ONE OF YOUR CHOICES). I received around 50 entries this month and only the 11 images below followed the theme of the contest which was to create a light painting image using the light painting photography logo. Voting ends on the 1st.
Oh and P.S. 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 22,22,22…..Please pick your three favorite IMAGES based on the image alone.
This light painting contest is sponsored by the greatest flashlight company around COAST!
Check out this fresh new Lichtfaktor Light Painting Video: “Shine a Light for Nature”.
Lichtfaktor: We did this light painting video with all our friends in 4 long and cold nights in cologne (our home town).
For us it was one of the most creative, funny and interesting time, the Chines production company became friends with us.
Now we hope to come as soon as possible to China…;)
Special thanks to the genius Mr. JJ, Raymond and his Team, dENiZEN and to all our friends/painters, we definitely have to do this again.
The Video has won the “the German Web Video Award 2012” in the Jury and Audience Price category AAA (Academy Approved Art).
Thank you all for voting and supporting us. And very special thanks to the German Web Video Award for the fantastic award. We love Duesseldorf!!
Thanks to all our fans & friends.
Video by lichtfaktor.com
Sound by thegreenman.de
Check: webvideopreis.de
I know I’m a bit late in posting this but wanted to get it up here for those who may not have seen it yet. Light Painting Photographer Patrick Rochon landed the March 10th NewScientist cover shot! Congratulations Patrick!
This is not light painting photography, but…. In this short film, “Silver & Light”, photographer Ian Ruther takes the concept of SOOC (straight out of camera) to a whole new level.
This project was created with the same spirit that america was founded on. Our intentions are to connect everyone in america through the lens of this camera and social networking sites. We can’t do this without you. We want to tell your story and show your city or town through photographs of you, and people you know. As we travel around america looking for people and places to shoot you will be able to keep track of where we are going and help us decide where we go next. Join us in our journey by liking our facebook to get yourself photographed by us.
An extra special thanks to Brandon Rein, Scotty Hoffman and Trevor Atwater.
facebook.com/pages/Ian-Ruhter-Photography/159583283699
ianruhter.tumblr.com/
One of the questions that I get the most here on Light Painting Photography is what tools should I get and where can I get them. I had been working on some ideas, trying different ways of putting a store together to supply the products that light painters’ need. Then a few months back I saw light painting photography’s very own technical genius Michael Ross had already done it! Mike started the website LightPaintingTools.com where he makes some really cools S*!@ for light painters, things like Light Markers, Orb Tools, and RGB Light Wands.
So Mike and I started talking about what he was trying to do and why he started the website. We have a similar love of light painting photography and a passion for sharing it with the world. Soooooo we teamed up. In the tools section of this site you will now find links to the products offered at LightPaintingTools.com. I will keep you updated with his new tools as they become available! Now get over there and buy something so Mr. Ross can keep creating innovative tools like The Digital Light Wand for the light painting world.
