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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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Light Painting With Fire, SAFETY FIRST

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Light Painting Photographer Zach Alan is known for his magical light painting work with fire and in light of recent events, that Zach had NOTHING to do with, where 22-year-old Robyn-Lee Jansen was severely burned by a photographer who “wanted to work with fire“ Zach put together an important video detailing some of the things to keep in mind if you want to try your hand at creating images using fire! Check out the safety video below and also one of Zach’s vlog’s showing how he works safely with fire. Don’t forget to subscribe to Zach’s Youtube channel, and for God’s sake BE CAREFUL if you try any of this.

Zach also has a detailed blog post about fire safety the you can check out here for more info!

Light Painting Photography Contest Winner, July 2019

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The winner for the transportation themed Light Painting Photography Contest for July 2019 is… Jordi Radok for the above image titled Ghost Rider! Here is what Jordi had to say about the winning image!

“It’s been almost a year since we had this photo in a list of photos to do with light painting. We had not been given the opportunity, or so we thought. When we saw the theme of the Light Painting Photography contest I immediately thought about this photo, but time passed, and in the last week before the deadline we started asking friends if they knew someone with a motorcycle that we could use. In the end we got to create the photo in a custom motorcycle workshop! We shot it during their work time so we had to work as fast as possible, because they were working! We took a model mechanic and we did some tests, until we found a picture that seemed correct. The surprise was when we put it on the computer screen, the “model” had not been staying still, so the photo was horrible. Only half a skull and dark shadows were seen around the body, we had to discard the photo, and there were only two days left until the deadline…”

“The next day I remembered that my brother had a couple of old bikes to repair in a small garage. We got down to work… We cleared a little space, put aside all the tools and took one of the bikes, lined the most visible parts with black vinyl because it was originally white, we put a small skull over the fairing and prepared the tripod and camera with an angular optic and a low-angle plane. Almost without looking for it we realized that with a roof very low the roof lines gave us a very interesting perspective, and we started playing. We tried the photo the day before we had internalized the process, Eva put on the Ghost rider kit – mask, leather jacket and chains and rode on top of the bike.”

 

“The first thing that I did was to illuminate Eva and the bike with a warm Minimaglite lantern. Once illuminated I started with the fire effect, which is made with a black fiber optic and a Thorfire tk15s flashlight at full power with an orange gel.”

“I focused more on the front wheel and above the head, then I did a little light against the ground with the same flashlight at half power. Finally we used a bit of smoke to create atmosphere and made a very soft contra light directly from Ghost rider, which was like a statue !! This image we repeated 6 times, but when we put the last photo on the big screen we looked at each other and a huge smile came out to us both, we had just got the photo that we had imagined.”

Gear Used:
Sony a7S
Samyang 14mm

Settings:
Bulb mode
301″ Second Exposure
ISO 125
F 6.3

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For this winning Jordi will receive a prize package filled with light painting tools from our sponsors COAST Flashlights, 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!

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Light Painting Contest Entries, June 2019

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Light-Painting-Automotive-Entries Below are the entries for this months Light Painting Photography contest! The theme of this light painting competition was Automotive and/or transportation. There are some really awesome images in this months contest so please make sure to VOTE on the quality of the images including things like creativity, composition, and complexity in your decision making process. Please pick the images you love based on the image alone. You can only vote one time or your votes will not be counted. Please read ALL the voting rules below.

Everyone PLEASE VOTE in the comment section of this page to pick your top 3 favorite images, ONLY VOTE ONE TIME. 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,…..Please pick your three favorite IMAGES based on the image alone, the voting will end July 1st, 2019 at Midnight Eastern Standard Time, Enjoy.  

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Light Painting VLOG 33, Traveling to Los Angeles for Wango Tango 2019

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Light Painting Zoom Pull

In this episode of the Light Painting VLOG I travel to Los Angeles, California and meet up with Fellow Light Painter and Light Painting Brushes Brand Ambassador Jason Rinehart to prepare for our gig at Wango Tango 2019. Jason and I meet at the airport then get mesmerized by the view of downtown Los Angeles from the hotel that we stayed in. We all had killer hotel rooms with incredible views at the Intercontinental Los Angeles. Jason and I shoot some zoom pull light paintings in the hotel room and test out some ideas as we wait for Efren and Melissa to arrive the following day. Stayed tuned for PART 2.