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Light Painting Photography Contest Winner, September 2019

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Orb Light Painting Photography

The winner for the Orb themed Light Painting Photography Contest for September 2019 is… Mart Barras for the above image titled Nucleus! The thought and execution that went into creating this image without any post production is just nuts. Here is what Mart said about the image…

“This was shot in an abandoned MOD ammo dump in wales, during a camping trip with other UK light-painters. I set up facing up a doorway in the dump, knowing it would give me a lot of dead space for a camera rotation and act as a main element and add to the framing. I then put Phil in the doorway and set up a flash on a stand behind him gelled orange. I did a couple of test shots to ensure the rotation part was as accurate as I could get it. I then set up a second tripod , close by facing down the corridor of the dump and marked the spot in the floor where I wanted an orb to be spun. Once that was set up I returned to the original tripod, I set some vape going behind Phill and started the exposure. At each rotation point, I fired off the flash and then capped the lens and moved to it the next position etc. Once I had come back to the start I left the lens cap on and moved the camera to the second tripod position and re-adjusted my focal length to the spot marked out for the orb. The final part was to spin the orb and end the exposure. SOOC Raw conversion in camera, Shot in one exposure. No photoshop.”

Tools used:
Nikon 7100D
Tokina 11-16mm
Two Tripods
Orb tool
Flash Gun
Flash Stand
Gels Vape Machine
Camera Rotation Tool

Settings: F5.6, ISO200, 12mm 195.2 seconds

Make sure to follow Mart’s mind blowing light painting work on his Facebook and Instagram pages linked below!
https://www.facebook.com/mart.barras
https://www.instagram.com/martbarras_lightpainting/

For this winning Mart will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools from our sponsors Denis Smith, COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible 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!

If you would like to enter the next Light Painting Photography contest click here for all the details.

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Spiked Orb Light Painting Tutorial

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Light Painting Tutorial - How To Light Paint An Orb

In this Light Painting Photography Tutorial you will see how to created a spiked orb using the Diamond Plexiglass attachment from Light Painting Brushes. We are working on all kinds of new videos so if you have not yet subscribed to our YouTube Channel head on over and check it out! Link HERE 🙂

Light Paint Live Version Pro 4+

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Light Paint Live Version 4.0

Great news for Light Painters that are looking for a simple and affordable solution to view their light paintings in real-time! The team of Joerg Miedza and Josh Beckwith have just released the latest version of Light Paint Live Pro and its only $30 bucks!  This innovative software allows you to view your light paintings on a laptop in real time as you create them! Some of the updates in the newest version of Light Paint Live Pro include remote control options from your phone, ghost slider and a decay effect.

The software can use a DSLR tethered to your computer however you can get nice results using a webcam as well, the recommended cameras are the BRIO or the C920. Here are some stills created by Joerg showing results from each of the cameras.

These are a few stills captured by the software in these new sample videos below you can see Light Paint Live in action!!

There are 2 versions of the software available, Version 3 which is FREE to download and this latest version 4+ which is $30 bucks, you can get them at LightPaintLive.com

Light Painting Celebrity Musicians for Wango Tango 2019, VLOG 35

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Here is the 3rd installment of the Light Painting VLOG from iHeart Radio’s Wango Tango Music festival. The Light Painting Brushes team was invited to create light painting portraits of the Main Stage artist for the event. Unfortunately we were not allowed to film the behind the scenes footage with the celebrities but we did manage to get a few clips that you will see in this VLOG. The greatest part about this event was seeing the reactions to the images. These are people that have literally thousands of images taken of them and to see them amazed with what we created was something really special. The video and images are below, Enjoy. If you want to see all the episode CLICK HERE for the playlist.

Light Painting Sea Creatures in the Sky. Shooting Focus Pull a.k.a. DeFocused Fireworks

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Last 4th of July I planned to shoot the fireworks display but I wanted to try something a little different. Somewhere on the internet in years past I had seen what looked like sea creatures or flowers in the sky. These images were created when the photographer possibly David Johnson (but I honestly can’t remember) had “Pulled Focus” during a long exposure while the firework exploded in the frame, essentially a form of kinetic light painting. These images had been bouncing around in the back of my mind for years now, this forth of July I finally remembered them in time to give it a go. It was way more difficult than I had anticipated, From the varying brightnesses of different explosions to just simply trying to line up a shot to capture the explosion in frame, it was all pretty tough. I did get a few that I was happy with, these are not SOOC I did some minor level adjustments and also cropped the crap out of them to isolate the parts of the image that I liked. Anyway here is a video showing how it all went down, Enjoy.

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