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Light Painting Around The House With Jason Rinehart Episode 3 Toothpaste

June 3, 2021 by Jason D. Page

Light Painting by Jason Rinehart

Light Painting Around The House Episode 3 – Toothpaste With Jason Rinehart.

In this episode of Around the House Jason uses toothpaste and a piece of glass from a picture frame to create what looks like an eye. He places that painted glass in the foreground and shoots through it focused on his model Jason created a very unique effect capturing what looks like the reflection of the model in someones eye.

The discovery of the eye effect was completely by accident but once Jason saw it the theme of this shoot became clear. Jason said the theme of this shoot was this quote “If I could give you one thing in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes, only then would you realize how special you are to me”

The Light Painting Tools that Jason used in this video are from LightPaintingBrushes.com

Light Painting Photography Contest Winner – May 2021

May 10, 2021 by Jason D. Page

And the winner of the Light Painting Photography Contest for May 2021 is Frodo Alvarez for the above image created using a empty water bottle to create a beautiful texture of light!

This picture was taken in an amazing adventure in France in 2019. My partner Patry Diez and I, we often collaborate with the french crew BODYLIGHT CONNECTIK’ART, a group of performers and bodypainters focused in Project 2888, a postapocaliptic world, full of futuristic creatures, fluor colors and UV lights, performing in different kind of events, and it’s always a great inspiration for lightpainting.

Patry plays the rol of Kaälys and I am Küma Light. On this occasion we had 2 gigs in France, a Burning Man-style corporate party, and a private birthday party. Patry was performing as Kaälys, and I was just helping and taking photos and light painting portraits.

The main bodypainter artist and also the mind of this project is Sita Vilaça. We met her for the first time at a United Lightpainters meeting in Merzouga, and since then a new artistic friendship grew. She’s a master in bodypainting, specialised in fluor colors and uv light. Her works are just epic, I’m a big fan of her work, and so does Patry. So I took Kaälys portrait at the end of the second event. We had some free time so I created some light painting portraits with the guests and some of the creatures. Here you can see more results:

[Kaälys & Kamaïte with Vj. Aurel. Photo Frodo DKL]

I shot with my OLYMPUS OM-D E-M1 MarkII and M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 7-14 mm 1:2:8 PRO. The settings were F7.1, ISO 200, Live Composite 0,5″ , and total exposure time less than 1 minute (I don’t know it for sure, but I know I try to be very fast with this kind of portraits). There are 4 steps in the creation of this image: 1. The trees in the background were lit by the venue lights, and the exposure was controlled with live composite mode, so the scene was not overburnt 2. I lit Patry with a 100LED UV flashlight filtered with onionskin paper.

3. I took my bottle connected to an ultrafire UV flashlight, and worked some freestyle to create those light trails around Kaälys.

4. Finally I wrote the name of the creature with a camping light filtered in blue.

About the bottle: it’s been years since I’ve been using this same old bottle. I fell in love with it the first time I tested it. There is a green fluor piece inside which reacts very great with UV lights, creating this green and purple organic light texture. So this is my first use of this bottle. But also, things change a lot if I use a warm Ultrafire flashlight with the same bottle, as you can see in this image which was taken at another Lightpainters United meeting in Belgium, with Patry and Luis Medina: If you like my work, feel free to visit and support my sites: www.instagram.com/childrenofdarklight (portfolio and making of) www.youtube.com/childrenofdarklightTV ( light painting channel) For this winning image Frodo 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! If you would like to enter the next Light Painting Photography contest click here for all the details.

Call For Light Painters

May 8, 2021 by Jason D. Page

Light Painting Artist Bernhard Rauscher is launching an interesting Kick Starter Campaign with Inspiracles that he asked me to share. The project will create Photography Inspiration Cards. Each deck comes with 56 cards in durable, high-quality packaging. The cards will be printed extra-large in size (twice the size of typical playing cards). Each card consists of three sections:

1. An inspirational prompt to trigger your imagination
2. Pro tips for photographic implementation
3. Examples to use for extra inspiration

Here is where the Light Painting comes in, as part of the Kick Starter Campaign they will be including an Extended Edition of Digital Only Cards for Light Painting Photography and you can have your work featured on these cards! This is a great opportunity to share your work and most importantly help to inspire others! If you would like to submit your work to be included in the Light Painting edition of the Inspiration Cards then Click HERE to submit your work.

Here is an example of how the digital inspiration cards will look!

Light Painting Contest Entries, April 2021

April 22, 2021 by Jason D. Page

Here are the entires for the April 2021 Light Painting Photography Contest! The theme of this contest was create a Light Painting using a bottle as your light painting tool! Please pick your TOP 3 favorite images and ONLY VOTE ONE TIME. Please pick the 3 different images you love based on the images alone and leave your selections in the comment section of this page. The images all have a number in the title (EXAMPLE… IF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITES IS THE IMAGE TITLED “Light Painting Contest 01″ THEN YOU SHOULD PUT THE NUMBER 01 AS ONE OF YOUR CHOICES). Voters must include 3 UNIQUE choices for your votes to be counted. In other words no 1,1,1, or 5,5,5,…..The voting will end 05/05/2021 at Midnight Eastern Standard Time, Enjoy.</p>

This Light Painting Photography contest is sponsored by the coolest companies on the Earth 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!

Light Painting – Game of Titans with Frodo Álvarez and Mario Lechu!

April 19, 2021 by Jason D. Page

Frodo Álvarez, a.k.a. Children of Darklight, is know for his MASSIVE light painting collaborations and this one is Epic! For this collaboration the team went up into the sky with a Drone Light Painting! I caught up with Frodo to ask about this incredible project and get a little more information! Check out the full interview, images and BTS video below!

Frodo congratulations on another Massive Light Painting Collaboration! This one is so cool, its such a fun concept and excellent execution! What was the massive light painting for, was it to promote a team or event?

I’ve already collaborated with this drones team in the past, so I had already dreamed on the posibility of a huge collaboration like this. But it was not until one of the agencies I usually work for had a project proposal, that we decided it was time to make some tests to see the potential or our idea and what we are capable of.

Who was involved in this project?

I worked together with the artists agency Creartys, the drones team UMILES Drone Light Show, and my good friend and also Light-Painter Mario Lechu.

What or Who sparked the inspiration for this Giant?

The project proposal for the agency involved a football championship, so here came the idea of the football player. I wanted to include the drone scene into a light painting scene in the ground, so it soon became a good idea to draw this football player about to kick the ball , and of course, the ball would be a light painted orb which we would light paint at ground level , with The Ball Of Light Tool. To complete the scene , we used 2 ledlenser MT18 filtered in green with Light Painting Paradise filters to light the ground.

What drone light painting projects have you worked on before?

In 2018 we were working in Las Vegas for Microsoft with our Live LightArt Show. Patry Diez my partner and I we are the performers there: light painting, modelling, acting.. Studio Lightpainting is in charge of the technical part, and Creartys was in charge of the production. We had there a scene were Patry acted as goddess of inspiration, and there was a star, dancing around her, and landing in her hand, which was done by a dron, whose pilot was Ernie from UMILES Drone Light Show. Here you can see a some footage of that scene:

In 2019 I also worked for UMILES Drone Light Show at the Iberian Drone League championship. At the end of the day, I was allowed to create this very special picture, with a drone doing 3 laps of the whole circuit:

Apart from this, I tried to light paint with a drone light show choreography made by my friends. Interesting results, but it just fed me with new ideas combining drone choreographies with light painting…

So it was about time, that this huge collaboration will arrive sooner or later, and we are all very happy with the results, and people’s feedback!

The lights on the drone have a Neon Light feel to them, what were they using for a light source?

They were using a 9W RGB LED board!

Was this Light Painting more or less difficult than you expected it to be?

Well, this is a team work, so the drone team worked on programming the drones for the design, and they did a really great job. By my side, the bigger challenges were that we didn’t have so much time to make rehearsals, because due to the pandemic situation, we must be at home at 11 pm… So we had to frame, set the camera to have a good exposure of the lights , compose with the orb in the right place, playing with the distance to camera to make it bigger or smaller,…
So I think it was complicated but we did a good planning and organisation of the tasks, but I know now we can do it much better. I think we all learned a lot from this experience, and next artworks will be even more impressive .

How many attempts did it take to get the final image?

We had time for just four attempts, but I would have loved to have another one.

The first image we shot with blue hour. The sky is great and it gives us a proper perspective and makes us realise the true dimensions of this Titan football player. But the orb was a little small, and there were some car light trails at the background.

So we tried to change the orb position, but it was too big, then we readjusted it in a new attempt with different orb colors but, something went wrong in my camera, so we needed a 4th attempt to get this image:

I was working with Olympus Cameras and live composite mode set at 2” , because I wanted to record the process, and that’s why the sky was so dark. I like this one very much, but it’s less epic than the first attempt with the blue sky…
So if I had had another attempt, I would have tried to have a better sky.

Other of that, I took a fast portrait to some of the members of the team, and I overlayed it in-camera with the first attempt image, as a souvenir!

You can see the behind the scenes process in this episode (with English Subtitles) at my light painting YouTube channel. Don’t hesitate to suscribe and support if you like it 😜 and follow us in IG @childrenofdarklight

The agency created a different video with English subs to show this project , you can watch it here:

Thanks a lot Jason for your support, for giving us voice to show and share this artwork to the community. We hope you all enjoyed it, and get inspired! We are light!

Thank you, and congratulations again!

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