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Light Painting is exploding, and if there are two people that stand out on the forefront of spreading the light it’s the globe trotting duo of Eric Paré and Kim Henry In the latest episode of Adorama’s YouTube show “Through The Lens” Eric and Kim talk about their work and whats keep them motivated, check it out below!
Light Painting Photographer Jason Rinehart has been hard at work over the last 6 months creating a unique project called UTOPIA II. Utopia II is a creative blend of light painting, double exposure, time-lapse, and hyper-lapse techniques mixed together to create a 2:15 second work of video art. Jason gave me some background about whats behind the name UTOPIA, why time-lapse is important in his creative process, what this project means to him, check it out below…
Words by Jason Rinehart:
Sometime ago I came across this statement that said an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. which ended up being the definition of Utopia. I absolutely loved that statement and so my Utopia journey begin. For me, its not this imagined place but making something that could very well be imagined a reality and bringing it to life through the art of photography.
I knew early on in my photography journey that time lapse would be an important part of my creativity. Im a very visual person and music is also a huge part of me as a artist. I find a ton of inspiration through sound for everything I create with my photography. For me time lapse is this perfect opportunity to share all these elements about myself combined into one beautiful creation. As a kid I was always fascinated with flip book art where one drawing lead on to the next page and so on and when you flip the pages the story reveals itself. To me its so amazing that where paper and pen would be needed for that type of art my camera is now my pen and the world my paper.
Utopia II I believe is this perfect reflection of me as a artist and shows how far ive come through my hard work. This project was a perfect balance of all these pieces of myself combined into one project to reveal all of my long exposure passions.
I hope everyone that sees Utopia II will enjoy my project as much as I did putting this all together. Im very passionate about my work and I want nothing more then to always convey that passion to who every sees my work. Thank you everyone that shows me so much support from around the world, you all are very much appreciated.
The winner for the light painting Light Blading contest is Francisco J. Lojo Pasín for the smooth spinning image above!
Fran said this about the winning image!
“I created this image using homemade plexiglass combined with one of my favorite lightpainting techniques, the camera rotation, but in a weird way this time. I put the camera spinning over a turntable!”
I used two flashlights with different power, the one with less power was attached to the homemade rectangle plexiglass and the other to a little acrylic bubble tube, both of them in strobe mode!
The process of taking the pic was easy. I held the two flashlights with a hand and while the camara is spinning I shot with a remote trigger and move the lightblades up moving my wrist to finally point the flashlights to the white roof and cut the exposure.
I tried with many different colors, motions, positions… but finally I decided not use colors and played only with the white balance of the camera. for this shot it was the ‘incandescente’ mode combined with white background ( the roof ) and different power of the cold flashlights, made a great blue tones image, it’s a stunning spiral effect! I’m very proud of the results!
My gear: Nikon D5300 with the 18-140mm kit lens.
The settings were:
f16
ISO 100
3.7 seconds of exposure.
Check out more of Fran’s Light Painting work on his Flickr, 500Px, and Instagram!
For this winning image Fran will receive a pize package filled with illuminating tools from our sponsors below. For your chance to win click here to see the next Light Painting Contest Theme and how to enter.
As a special addition to this contest prize package Patrick Rochon donated his entire new KYO LITEBLADE SYSTEM! The kit will include, a Klarus XT11S (1100 Lumens), 7 round bottom Liteblades, 1 KYO attachement, one remote pressure switch and a colour sample pack!
And as always this light painting photography contest series is sponsored by the best damn companies on earth COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, LED Flexible,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!
Here are the entries for the February 2018 Light Painting Photography Light Blading Contest! Everyone PLEASE VOTE in the comment section of this page to pick your top 3 favorite images, the images all have a number in the title (EXAMPLE… IF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITES IS THE IMAGE TITLED “Light Painting Contest February 2018 22″ THEN YOU SHOULD PUT THE NUMBER 22 AS ONE OF YOUR CHOICES). Voters please vote just ONE time and you 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, thank you and enjoy. Voting ends February 28th at Midnight Eastern Standard Time.
As a special addition to this prize package Patrick is donating his entire new KYO LITEBLADE SYSTEM! The kit will include, a Klarus XT11S (1100 Lumens), 7 round bottom Liteblades, 1 KYO attachement, one remote pressure switch and a colour sample pack!
The light painting photography contest series is sponsored by the best damn companies on earth COAST Flashlights, Neon Flexible, LED Flexible,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!
It has always amazed me how light, like music, can transcend all social and cultural boundaries and bring people together! The inclusiveness of light is one of the things I love most about the medium we work with as light painters. Last year Aurora Light Movement, a light painting trio from Germany, organized a Meet Up group in Berlin with other light painting artist from around the world! With so many talented light painters in one place the production team from MovinApes decided to document the meet up and turned it into a wonderful documentary series called The Path Of Light! This video showcases perfectly the beauty of light bringing people together, check it out below! If you would like to read the full detailed report on the event check it out here. Enjoy.