For the promotion and progression of Light Painting Art and Artist.
Here is a quick and simple video showing the behind the scenes of how to Light Paint a Heart using tools from Light Painting Brushes. Hope everyone has/had a Happy Valentine’s Day. Today and everyday is the time to show LOVE to everyone, including yourself! Enjoy.
Camera Settings were: ISO100 – F11 – 333 Second Exposure
This is a slightly trimmed down version of our Light Painting Brushes Tricks and Tips Live Stream from 01-07-2022.
This live stream was hosted by Light Painting Brushes Brand Ambassador Jason Rinehart.
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First in this episode we have Light Painting Artist and Teacher, Christina Salinas talks about her experience teaching Light Painting as a part of the curriculum for her High School students!
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Second we have Light Painting Brushes Brand Ambassador Zach Alan do an image breakdown of one of his extraordinary angel images created using the Feather Plexiglass.
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Finally we have Light Painting Brushes Tool wizard Johnny Griffin talking about different ways to modify the edge of your Plexiglass Light Painting Brushes tools. Johnny also introduces the new and limited edition Serpent Plexiglass!
If you would like to join in please join us in the Light Painting Brushes Tricks and Tips group on Facebook to participate in our next Light Painting Brushes Live event, here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LightPaintingBrushes
UPDATE SOLD OUT: Here is a link to the Limited Edition Serpent Plexiglass: https://lightpaintingbrushes.com/collections/plexiglass-light-painting-brushes/products/serpent-plexiglass-light-painting-tool
All the Light Painting Tools we talk about in this stream can be found here: https://lightpaintingbrushes.com
In this Light Painting Photography Tutorial titled Elon Musk Landing on Mars to use Dogecoin to purchase the first Martian Tesla, just to see if this video will get more views based on the Elon Musk Title over other tutorials, I show how to Light Paint a SciFi scene using tools from Light Painting Brushes. Who knows maybe this is what it will look like when Elon finally gets to step foot onto the red planet.
The camera settings for this tutorial were:
ISO 100
F22
Bulb Mode
Total Exposure Time was 240 Seconds.
The tools used in this Light Painting Photography Tutorial were from https://lightpaintingbrushes.com
Soonfire MX66 Flashlight: https://amzn.to/38dXpLL
The RGB Light I used if from Frank at Light Excursion: https://www.instagram.com/lightexcursion/
Lindsay Adler is an incredibly talented Photographer, she is know for her imaginative and masterful work with light in her Portrait work! In her latest YouTube video Lindsay dives into the world of Light Painting with her first Fiber Optic Light Painting Portraits! I think the images came out amazing and it is so cool to see her exploring the world of Light Painting Photography! I really hope to see Lindsay and more photographers like her exploring the endless creative possibilities that Light Painting Portraits offer! Check out the video below!
Light Painting Photographer Eric Pare is known for pushing the boundaries and taking things to the next level in his Light Painting Work! Eric can now add being one of the first Light Painters to successfully venture into the world of NFT’s to his resume with his first NFT Drop that completely sold out! After learning about this amazing launch (that I wish I would have got in on in time to get one) I reached out to Eric to share his experience in the NFT space with the Light Painting Community! Below is the interview that Eric was kind enough to answer, hopefully your can learn a thing or two and maybe try your luck with this exciting new way to make some money from your Light Painting Photography!
LPP ∇ Hey Eric thank you for taking the time to answer some questions about this exciting new opportunity for Light Painting Artist! My first question is how would you explain what an NFT is to someone who has never heard of one before?
EP ∇ An NFT is a certificate of ownership of a digital asset on the blockchain. The example that is always used is the Mona Lisa. There is a single one of this. You can take a picture of the Mona Lisa, but it doesn’t hold any value. A NFT is a digital version of this. It is a unique contract that defines the ownership of the piece. This has nothing to do with copyrights or commercial rights.
LPP ∇ Was selling NFT’s something that you were actively seeking out to do for yourself or were you approached by someone or some entity to do your first NFT drop?
EP ∇ I was curious about NFTs just as most of the photographers out there. I worked with Sloika.xyz for my first drop as I had no experience or knowledge about NFTs back then. They made the whole process very smooth and they made sure that the contract was properly made for my needs. My second drop was on Foundation which was quite straightforward as I had much more experience at that point.
LPP ∇ On a technical level from scale of 1-10 One being super easy and ten being extremely difficult how hard was it to “Mint” your NFT’s?
EP ∇ Easier than it sounds! There’s a whole bunch of new things to learn when it comes to NFTs, but there are plenty of tutorials available, and the community is very helpful. The best place to learn is through the Twitter Spaces (audio conversations)
LPP ∇ Does minting the NFT cost anything on the front end before you actually make a sale?
EP ∇ Yes! It can cost a couple of hundred dollars just to mint one piece (gas fees). There are other platforms on which it is possible to mint for cheaper, but the main ones are on the Ethereum crypto currency and gas fees are quite expensive at the moment
LPP ∇ How were your NFT’s sold, did you do an auction format or did you pick a set price for your images? If you did the set price how did you come up with your price tag for the NFT’s?
EP ∇ My first collection of 9 items has been sold on Sloika within a few days for a total of 1.8E (7400$USD), and some of the items have been placed for sale by the new owners for up to 5E. Then on Foundation, I set my first piece at 2E (8200$USD) and it got sold within a week. We did the promotion mostly on Twitter.
LPP ∇ Without getting too much into the technical aspects, I understand that within the contract of an NFT you will also benefit from the future sales of your work! I think this is the greatest aspect of the NFT from a creators perspective, can you tell me a little bit more about what you will receive from the future sales of your work?
EP ∇ What’s interesting here is that the creator gets 10% of the secondary sales. But the secondary sale can be way above the initial price, meaning that the revenues are sometimes significant. That being said, photographies are not traded that much (as opposed to the craziness we see with PFP projects like Cryptopunks or BoredApes)
LPP ∇ Thats exciting! Last question, what advice would you give to someone looking to mint their first NFT?
EP ∇ Get on Twitter, follow successful NFT photographers and spend weeks learning about the topic. Join their Twitter Spaces, interact with them, interact with other newcomers. It’s complex, it’s new, it’s modern, it’s a totally different mindset. NFTs are part of the Web3 and a fundamental part of this is the “WGMI” (we’re going to make it). It’s a collective project. It’s far from the “Instagram influencer” business model we’re used to hearing about.
Don’t mint anything right away thinking you’re going to make a couple of ETH. Take the time to really craft your art and have a solid story. Be part of the community, help others, interact with collectors.
Once you take the plunge into NFTs, you’ll stop thinking about irrelevant things like when to post on Instagram or your number of followers. Your art is going to be your priority. Fine tune your best pieces as you know that once you’re going to mint them, they’ll be forever part of the blockchain.
As a reference, here’s what I prepared for my NFTs (for my collectors)
https://ericpare.com/night-reflection-one
https://ericpare.com/frzn
LPP ∇ Thank you again for taking the time to answer these questions and share your knowledge with the community! Congratulations on all your success and I am sure you will have many more successful drops in the future!
In this Light Painting Photography Tutorial I show How To Light Paint a custom made, creepy mask that I received from Annie Jones. In this video I use tools from Light Painting Brushes and Spiffy Gear to try to add to the creepiness of this killer mask. I illuminate the mask shinning the light from the bottom up to bring out some of the texture and shadows of the mask itself. I illuminated the eyes using the Blue Light Pen. I also use the Fiber Optics to add in some different textures and create an illuminated background, finally I created the lines using the KYU-6. All of this is done in one single photographic exposure.
The Light Painting Tools used in this video are from:
https://lightpaintingbrushes.com
https://spiffygear.com
Camera Settings for this Light Painting Photography Tutorial were:
ISO100
F8
Bulb Mode
Exposure Time was 250 Seconds
Check out some of Annie’s Light Painting and Mask Making Skills on here instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/annie.jonesphotography/
Light Painting Brushes Brand Ambassador Jason Rinehart has released his latest episode of his Light Painting Video Tutorial Series “Around The House”. In this episode Jason shares how to create vivid and colorful images using his Light Painting Brushes Plexiglass Diamond and transparent window gels, normally used for Holiday decorations! The settings used in this tutorial were: ISO 500, F8 and the exposure times were all around one minute!
Unless you live under a rock I am sure you have heard that NFT or (non fungible tokens) are all the rage in the world of collectables these days. The concept behind NFT’s, especially with Projects like THETA, with their Digital Rights Management is really intriguing. I am not going to get into all the technical stuff behind how NFT’s work but something that I personally think is game changing is the fact that if you assign an NFT to your digital asset (Light Painting) you can essentially get paid every time your image sells going forward. When you or someone in the future sells your image the NFT assigned to it, via a smart contract, you will pay you a percentage of the sale forever! Lets say you sell your Light Painting NFT today for $100. a year from now the world catching on to how amazing you are and that same Light Painting now sells for $1,000,000.00! Via the smart contract assigned to your Light Painting NFT you can get whatever % you assigned to it, let’s say 10%. This can happen every time the NFT sells forever, creating passive income! That is good for ALL types of artists!
Anyway enough on that, the point of this article is to share that Lamborghini is launching their very first NFT and IT’S A LIGHT PAINTING, yes the image above! This Light Painting was created by photographer Paulo Renftle The NFT Drop goes live on September 25th! Lord only knows what these things are gonna sell for but if you’ve got some bucks to spend you can check it out here https://www.elysiumbridge.org/live
In this Light Painting video I drag my Aunt and Uncle to the top of a mountain while I trace them with light to create a Light Painting Picnic Under The Stars. It was an absolutely beautiful night in the mountains of North Carolina. I am grateful to be able to share a night of creating under the stars with them and I think they appreciated how beautiful the night was with the fireflies and stars all around!
Here is the link the the Lightman Light Painting Tutorial I referenced in the video: https://youtu.be/2vCaiF9DSxU
The Camera settings I used were:
ISO 400
F22, F11 and F2.8 all in the same exposure.
Bulb Mode
Total Exposure Time was 358 seconds.
The Tools that I used can be found here:
Light Painting Brushes: https://lightpaintingbrushes.com
Flashlight was the Soonfire MX66: https://amzn.to/3yQGWcK
The winners for the Light Painting Photography ORB contest is the Light Painting Dynamic Duo of Lena and Madlen a.k.a. “Charisma Meets Light” for the fantastic image above that took nearly 25 minutes to create! Here is what Lena had to say about their winning creation!
I started with light painting in 2018 and Madlen came on board one year later. We are two light painting artists from Saarland, Germany. We both enjoy and have great enthusiasm for long single exposure photography, painting with light at night, using creative ideas and various tools! Because we share the same passions we in 2019 we formed the project CHARISMA MEETS LIGHT.
We created this image in an abandoned location in France. I had the idea to put two big orbs on a leash as if they were two dogs. We didn’t have a backlight scanner, but luckily we found an old petrol canister in the hall that we placed a Wowtac flashlight behind the model Madlen that worked for the backlight.
Madlen was both a light painter and a model for this image, she created the orb on the left with neon tube cover! I created the other orb on the right side and I drew the dog leashes with sparklers. Finally, we illuminated the hall. Altogether we needed 25 minutes to complete the photo at the second attempt.
We stayed in the hall all night. The hall was dusty and we wanted to protect the lens using the lens cap. The funny thing was that for the first attempt we forgot to remove the lens cap on the camera and almost wanted to break it off, but our motivation was stronger!
Check out more Light Painting work from Lena and Madlen on their Facebook and Instagram pages listed below! https://www.facebook.com/LenaundMadlen https://www.instagram.com/charismameetslight/
For this winning image Lena and Madlen will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools and treasures from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, Rosco and Light Painting Brushes ! Please support these awesome companies that support our light painting art from, without them this contest series would not be possible!
