In this Light Painting tutorial I show How To Light Paint a Dandelion using tools from Light Painting Brushes. The camera that I use is the Canon 6D Mark ii and the Rokinon 14MM Manual lens. The manual lens was important in creating this image because I changed the aperture during the exposure. The camera settings that I used were ISO100, F16 for the Flower portion of the image, then I changed the aperture to 2.8 to illuminate the scene and allow the background to expose. The total exposure time for this image was 440 seconds. It was all created in real time and captured to the camera in one single photographic frame. If you are new to Light Painting check out this detailed tutorial showing how to light paint a flower here: HOW TO LIGHT PAINT A FLOWER
We did this session with our friends Dario Cuesta and Miguel Gomez, the inspiration came from the spectacular location. It is a country house that although it was not in use, it was not abandoned, so we were lucky to get permission from the owner to go to take our photographs there. We wanted to create a light plant because the house reminded us of a mushroom and it seemed to us that it could integrate very well some type of light flower in front of this beautiful house. We only had to start designing our light plant, we did not have anything clear what its shape would be. We knew the colors we wanted to use, green to match the mushroom house and a pink to give it a good contrast, so it was time to start to practice the branches and see how the light strokes worked. Here are a few of our first practice shots.
The tools to paint the plant were 2 plexiglass rod with its adapter and some round methacrylate filters.
We made these points of light with some boxes of colored LEDs that we placed well placed on the ground. Below is a photograph of this tool that we use a lot when we need fixed continuous light. 
At this point in the tests, perhaps 2 hours had passed, many times people do not know the work behind creating a single image! Remember that it was also very cold and there were more and more tests that we did that you don’t see here. We also tried to see if we could include some sparkles but we didn’t like it so we discarded that idea.
This was the last test before launching into the final photograph, as you can see, all the lines are already in order and the mushroom house masterfully illuminated by Dario, with the Fenix FD41 flashlight. At this point, it was time to configure the camera, the settings that we used were: 
Here are the entires for the February 2021 Light Painting Photography Contest! The theme of this contest was “Flower Of Light” That means contestants needed to create a flower completely out of light! 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, or 7,7,7,…..The voting will end 02/28/2021 at Midnight Eastern Standard Time, Enjoy.
