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How To Light Paint With a Cell Phone, Light Painting Tutorial

April 6, 2020 by Jason D. Page Leave a Comment

Hi everyone, as I am sure you all are well aware we are going through some difficult times in the world right now. I made a new Light Painting Tutorial video showing how to light paint with a cell phone. I hope that this video is helpful to those that might not have access to a more expensive camera and it will bring more people into our light form. Even if you have a DSLR or “fancy” camera shooting on your cell phone can yield some interesting results and I hope you will give it a try. Wishing all our Light Painting family around the world a peaceful mind and good health, be well and see you all out there on the other side of this…

Light Painting Mosaic: Quarantine

April 2, 2020 by Jason D. Page 1 Comment

Quarantine Mosaic

Dan Roberts has launched a new Piece Out Light Painting Mosaic Project called Quarantine. We all know we are going through some hard times in the world right now and if you are on the better side of things you and your loved ones at least still have your health. If you are one of the lucky ones that is HEALTHY but getting bored at home this would be a great time to join in on this Light Painting collaboration.

The way the Piece Out Light Painting collaboration works is the image above is divided into 560 individual pieces or tiles. Light painting artist from around the world can sign up to light paint one or several of the tiles and once all the tiles are completed the final image with come to light. CLICK HERE to join in this project!

The last Piece out project was Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, as seen below!
Light Painting Starry Starry Night

Light Painting Tutorial, The Tinfoil Technique

March 23, 2020 by Jason D. Page Leave a Comment

In this light painting photography tutorial inspired by Tim Gamble I show how to use Tinfoil to create a mold and then illuminate it to get some really interesting light painted results. The way the various colors of light catch the tinfoil and mix together when using handheld light sources during a long exposure can yield some incredible colors, textures and designs. The possibilities on this technique are only limited by your imagination! I hope you find some inspiration in this tutorial and will give it a try yourself. Be well and lets do the best we can to take care of one another in these difficult times.

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Light Painting Brushes: https://lightpaintingbrushes.com
Soonfire DS31 Flashlight: https://amzn.to/2WAQ5px
ROSCO MixBook: http://www.dmglumiere.com/products/mixbook-p202

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Light Painting Blade Guide Tutorial by Christina The Light Painter

March 9, 2020 by Jason D. Page

Light Painting Photographer Christina Marie recently shared this cool Light Painting Video tutorial. Spatial awareness can be one of the most difficult aspects of creating a Light Painting, in this tutorial Christina shares a technique of using a “Blade Guide” to make things a little bit easier. Check out the video and images below!

Light Painting Photography Contest Winner, March 2020

March 5, 2020 by Jason D. Page

Congratulations to the winner of the Light Painting Photography Spirograph contest Antonio Martínez for the above image titled Andromeda! This image was a complicated one to make here is what Antonio had to say about his winning Light Painting!

“My intention was to create as a galaxy originally only with the spirograph but I thought it was all a bit empty. I wanted to include some other light painting effects to make it better, so I included added in some more effects. To create the image I also used a kaleidoscope, a glitter card, a black fiber optic and several different flashlights with color filters.

To create this image I made the spirograph with an orange plastic rod attached to a flashlight and the round Light Painting Paradise adapter. I hung it from the ceiling of the living room with a piece to thread, then I used a flash of cold light in the center of the frame. I made some effects with the black fiber optic with a blue color filter and then without moving the camera I did some more effects by lighting a glitter card in front of the lens to create white dots.

Finally I changed the camera to a different tripod that I had prepared in front of a kaleidoscope and I made some more effects in the form of radial lines, dots, and concentric ring around the spirograph all these in blue and orange. All of those element come together to make the Andromeda galaxy image! I made many combinations for two nights in a row until I got this one that you see here.

The settings used were: 395 seconds of exposure – multiple diaphragm with manual lenses (f/8 to f/16) – 14mm – ISO100 – 5500K – multiple focus – changing camera position.

Thank you very much to everyone for the votes, and to the judges for finally choosing my picture! Here are a few behind shots of the setup.

For this winning Image Antonio will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools and treasures from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, 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! If you would like to enter the next Light Painting Photography contest click here for all the details.