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Patrick Rochon Interview

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Patrick Rochon creates some of the most awe inspiring light painting portraits in the world! His work is just incredible, Patrick uses vivid color combinations together with his unique brushstrokes to produce amazing works of ART. He was kind enough to find a moment in his busy work schedule to answer some questions for his light painting photography profile.

1. What is your name?
I’m Patrick Rochon and I’m a light painter since 1992.

2.Do you have an alias that you go by?
Just Patrick the light painter

3.Are you a soloist or are you part of a Light Painting group? If a group who is in your group?
Photography wise I’ve been working solo since 1992 but often I do collaborations. For live performances I was part of a few groups. With friends we created “Light Warriors Tokyo”, “Liquid Vision” and “Boa”. Now I work under my name and build teams for each project.

4.What is your level of Education?
College degree in photography, but I must say that the biggest learning I did was from traveling, living all kinds of experiences and specially from meeting great people and exchanging with them.

5.What is your occupation?
I’m a light painter, I explore it through photography, live performances and video.

6.How long have you been a photographer?
Since 1991 when I graduated.

7.How long have you been light painting?
Since 1992

8.How did you discover Light Painting Photography?
Trough a friend I saw a B&W photograph that had a slight light painting touch in it. I asked what it was and it sparked my mind.

9.What was your first Light Painting Image?
I started with my room mate and my girlfriend at the time. So since then working with people is my passion and speciality.

10.Film or Digital?
15 years of film, now digital and I’m loving it.

11. Do you believe in aliens?
Well I like to be logical and I love observing. I try to stay away from beliefs. of course I love looking at the stars and how vast cosmos is. When I do i think ” it can’t all be dead out there”. There are two very interesting article to read.

From the New York Time:

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/11/world/beijing-journal-a-ufo-boom-doesn-t-worry-china-s-rulers.html?pagewanted=2

From CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/02/nasa.kepler.planets/index.html?hpt=C1

The facts are getting more and more interesting.

Also this phenomena was published in a few major new channels:

ABC news:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/ufo-china-closes-airport-prompts-investigation/story?id=11159531

Daily Mail UK:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1293395/UFO-China-closes-Xiaoshan-Airport-spotted-flying-city.html

The Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/8043055/UFO-closes-Chinese-airport.html

12.What is your standard Light Painting Photography setup?
Mmmm no standart, black background indoor is often used for portraits and nudes.

13.What is your favorite color?
All colors and I love transparency.

14.Who influences your Light Painting Photography work?
No one really, I did body painting before light painting. I also had other influences but mainly my curiosity to discover and create.

15.Who is your favorite Light Painting Artist?
I had the chance to witness Aurora Crowley’s process. He started as a hair sculptor and he was doing body painting and body design. We collaborated in 1996. Him doing the styling and the look on the model and me doing the ligt painting. Since then he started his own light paintings. It took a good 10 years of investment on his part to get to this point and now his fashion light painting is timeless.

16.What is your favorite food?
Non-chemical and non-industrialised food.

17.Do you create in any other mediums other than light painting? If so what are they?
Life in general is an art form. Creating your reality, creating yourself.

18. What is your favorite Light Painting Photography image that you have created?
I love the series with the Butoh dancers and also the shoot with Toyota. I hope to impress myself in the near future.

19. What is your favorite Light Painting Photography image of another artist?
I love what Manray did because it symbolizes the beginning of light painting photography. Also the serie Gjon Mili did with Picasso.

20. What is the most difficult part of Light Painting Photography?
Trusting your intuition, your instinct without tying to control.

21. How do you get you Light Painting Photography work seen?
Internet, blogs, magazine. I’m working on an erotic exhibition. I haven’t printed in a very long time. This is exciting.

22. Do you sell your Light Painting Photography work?
Yes, love it that’s alway an honor.

23. Are you represented by a gallery?
Not yet but working on it. I have an agent for commercial work 2M2: http://www.2m2.ca/

24.Where can we see more of your work?
Some is on Flickr, some on my site and some at the agency 2M2

25.What is your favorite quote?
In everything you do, no matter if it’s personal, professional or spiritual, there’s always a secret door waiting to be discovered,,,and you are the key to that door. I said this one in India 2009 in from of a crowd of 6000 university students.

27. What is you favorite activity other than light painting?
Growing, expanding and transforming.

32. Where do you find inspiration for your Light Painting Photography?
I don’t need inspiration, I just do it, it’s a practice.

34. Who would you like to kiss?
mmmm…

35. Why do you Light Paint?
Cause it’s magical

36. What is your favorite time to shoot?
Night

37. What is your favorite subject to shoot?
Portraits & nudes

40. Have you ever invented a Light Painting Photography tool?
If so what was it and how did it work? Working on new ones with my friend Sylvain Lavoie

41. Do you ever get sick of explaining your work to people?
I love it, I’m always exposing people to this form of art and I’m always giving my card so they ca see it on my site.

42. How many times have you heard the work photoshop when someone was describing or asking about your work?
aaaaahhh many times of course but photoshop can be art too, it’s just a tool and I love it.

43. What makes you happy?
The rise of conscious people in the world

44. What makes you mad?
The rise of dumb people in the world.

45. What part of Light Painting Photography do you enjoy the most?
The good surprises when you look at the result.

46. What part of Light Painting Photography do you hate the most?
The bad surprises when you look at the result.

47.Do you have a website? If yes what is the address?
http://www.patrickrochon.com

48.What is Light Painting Photography?
You answer this one..

49.Give me some advice for anyone that might like to try Light Painting Photography.
Do it often, have fun and get your friends involved.

50.Are you scared of the dark?
I love it.

To see more of Patrick’s work visit his light painting photography profile HERE.

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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Click here to learn a little more about color temperature.

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.

Copying Other Peoples Work

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I have recently been informed of a website that has copied and pasted what has taken me months of work to compile with out giving any credit or a link back to the site. I am building this website for the promotion of light painting photography and the artist involved in the movement as well as a resource for light painters and those who are interested in our art form. We are all inspired by the work of other light painters, other writers, other photographers, and other artist in general. I don’t agree with Pablo Picasso when he said “Good artist copy, Great artist steal”. The point is….. PLEASE spread the word about light painting photography and feel free to use anything on this site, copy and paste it if you want, just give credit where credit is due! If you use photos from an artist give the artist credit and a link back to their website. If you copy and paste the entire history of light painting page to create a page on your own website be sure to say where you got it from! Light painting photography has a very close community, we know who is putting in the work and who is not.

Kaki King – “Pull Me Out Alive” Music Video

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This is an older light painting video but a damn good one. Kaki King’s “Pull Me Out Alive” music video was shot on some very cold nights in New York City back in 2008. The final video is comprised of over 2700 individual light painting photographs. The crew began shooting around 6 P.M. as soon as the sun went down and worked for several nights until 6 in the morning. The nights were so cold that a hot cup of coffee would freeze in 5 minutes if left out in the elements. The making of this light painting video was put together nicely check them both out below.

The Making Of….

The Lights We Use

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This is a new light painting video tutorial by Trevor Williams and Fiz-iks about the lights used to create their magic. I really like the way these light painting tutorials are put together, they are informative and entertaining at the same time. Trevor has a whole series of these videos planned so stay tuned for more as they become available! View the first video in the series HERE.

Fiz-iks.com

Here is a brief run down of the type of lights we use for light painting. Feel free to ask any questions in the comments. Read about our gear on our homepage at http://www.fiz-iks.com/gear

Nowhere Near Here, Light Painting

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If life is a catwalk, run like a dog.

‘Nowhere Near Here’ is a stop motion animation that uses a combination of light with stencils and long exposure photography to tell the story of a dog running around the city at night, doing whatever a dog does. The animation was first exhibited at the The Herbert, in Coventry, on the 7th October 2010.

With well over 300 hours in the making, more than 200 stencils involved and too many cold nights spent outside on my knees getting the shots, I am very happy (and relieved) to finally share this with you. Through the course of shooting ‘Nowhere Near Here’, I have dealt with curious drunks, a dog almost peeing on the camera (the irony is not lost on me, haha), the endlessly suspicious police and even someone nearly running off with a tripod.

This is street art, this is life and thank you for watching.

…for those of you that may be interested in prints, a selection of film stills from ‘Nowhere Near Here’ are currently available at pahnl.co.uk/​store.php

Animation by Pahnl
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