I would FINALLY like to officially welcome light painting artist Brian Matthew Hart to the light painting photography website. Brian has developed a style of light line work that is instantly recognizable as his own and has created the most complex light painting images out there. Some of you may have read the totally fictional interview I put up a few weeks ago with Brian, that was because I had been waiting on him to get the interview questions back to me for about 9 months. I made him sound like an a-hole in hopes that would inspire him to get the efing questions back to me…. it worked. Check out his real interview and full artist profile HERE.
December Light Painting Contest Entries
Here are the entries for the December 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. This months contest theme was NOCTOGRAPHY, meaning the images should be in the style of light painting artist Nocturne. 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 contest was sponsored by the greatest flashlight company around COAST, camera equipment retailer and light painting supporter Adorama, and light painting artist Nocturne.
Peanut Butter and Jelly, Light Painting Stop Motion
Ben Parker has only been light painting for two months and this is his first attempt at a light painting animation. Pretty rad for a virgin….
Hey Ben tell me a little more about yourself and this piece..
How old are you?
26
How long have you been light painting?
About 2 months
Who is your favorite light painter, who’s work inspires you?
TwinCitiesBrightest is pretty awesome
Was this your first light painting creation?
No, About 2 months ago we were camping at the beach. My girlfriend was taking a
picture in the dark so the camera auto set to a longer exposure. My daughter then
ran through her shot holding a lantern. After that we drew all night! I’ll attach a
couple pics from that night.
Why did you create this stop motion light painting?
I wanted to do something unique.. After coming home from camping and googling light
painting I saw I had a long way to go to be one of the best. I’ve seen a few other
light stop video’s out there but only a handful are really any good.
How long did it take?
I had a lot of distractions, especially people wanting to eat in the kitchen. But I
think I did it over 4 nights. It took 448 shots that were all 30 second exposures
with a 10 second timer. And 448 is just what was usable. I probably took around 650.
So it was very time consuming, but well worth the effort in the end.
Why PB&J?
It seemed easy lol
Anything else in the works?
I’m working an intro to put at the front of future video’s and I have a short clip
(aiming for 20s) I’m working on now. Its about a bird getting revenge on some
hunters.. I have a whole list of things I really want to do, but I’m clearly not pro
at this yet so I’m putting some of my favorite ideas on the back burner till I learn
the trade a bit better.
Do you have a website?
Not Yet!
Anything else you want to add???
This was my first stop motion video (light painting or not) and I learned a LOT
along the way. You can tell in the beginning I shot during the day and I kind of
show up. I also dont have a tripod or remote shutter release which adds a lot of
camera shake. A tripod is first on my list of things to buy. Along with countless
other mistakes I made. But I’d recommend everyone try it out! I had a ton of fun.
Alright man thanks for your time and cant wait to see ham and cheese next…
Light Painting Behind the Scenes for Fstoppers.com 2011 Contest
Cool video of Light Painting Photographer Dennis Calvert At work.
Photonmancer Dennis Calvert (denniscalvert.net/) was in town shooting some promo pics for local Atlanta artist DJ Kave and invited me along to shoot some behind the scenes. Filmed using a blend of video and time-lapse.
Came out pretty good but I’ll be traveling to Alabama to try to film Dennis at work for a follow-up video! Definitely learned a few lessons on how to capture the process on camera and that ISO6400 looks rough even at f/2.8…
Thanks to Rhythma Dance Studios for letting us shoot into the night at their venue. rhythmastudios.com/
Filmed by Zachary Long of FengLong Photography FengLongPhoto.com/
Music by DJ Kave “Oasis Remix”
Visualizing Light at a Trillion Frames Per Second
Okay this doesn’t really have anything to do with light painting but if you are a serious light painter (or a nerd) you may get a kick out of it and it might just help you understand light a little bit better. This “Camera” was developed by MIT to basically record how light travels and how it hits an object. AWESOME!
Video of a fruit illuminated by a femtosecond laser pulse and captured at an effective trillion frames per second. Light moves less than 1 mm per frame.
We have built an imaging solution that allows us to visualize propagation of light at an effective rate of one trillion frames per second. Direct recording of light at such a frame rate with sufficient brightness is nearly impossible. We use an indirect ‘stroboscopic’ method that combines millions of repeated measurements by careful scanning in time and viewpoints.
The device has been developed by the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture group in collaboration with Bawendi Lab in the Department of Chemistry at MIT. A laser pulse that lasts less than one trillionth of a second is used as a flash and the light returning from the scene is collected by a camera at a rate equivalent to roughly 1 trillion frames per second. However, due to very short exposure times (roughly one trillionth of a second) and a narrow field of view of the camera, the video is captured over several minutes by repeated and periodic sampling.
For more info visit
http://raskar.info/trillionfps
http://femtophoto.info
Music: “Rising” by Kevin MacLeod (http://music.incompetech.com/royaltyfree2/Rising.mp3)
. Music by Kevin McLeod.
http://raskar.info/trillionfps
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/science/speed-of-light-lingers-in-face-of-m…
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213.html
