Light Painting Photographer and urban explorer Troy Paiva has inspired numerous light painters and photographers around the globe and he is about to inspire a few more! Troy’s beautiful light painting work of abandoned locations was featured on the Flickr blog today, exposure that could get a few million people to see his work for the first time. Congratulations to Troy on the well deserved exposure! Check out Mr. Paiva’s Flickr Moment…

This October light painters Frodo Kolo (Children of Darklight), Nacho García-Cosío (Fotografi.es), Iván Lucio and Javier Jiménez (Riders Of Light), Iván Barco (Herramientas LightPainting) and 17 volunteers collaborated to produce the above massive light painting piece at the Noche Blanca in Oviedo, Spain. Here is what Frodo a.k.a Children of Darklight had to say about this amazing light painting work!

“We made a 2 minute lightpainting photo of an old walk`s mosaic in a centric park of Oviedo. The photo was taken from 12 meters high by two camera operators, while 19 people where painting simultaneously with lights, well sincronized and organized. The photo was taken at F16 and ISO 100. Many streetlamps where turned off for the event. The kiosk workers also participated in the photo by turning on the lights just 3 seconds for its right exposition and then turned them off again. People worked very well from the beginning and we got the final shot at the third attempt.

We are proud of our sponsors Led Lenser and Herramientas Lightpainting, which provided us with the best torches and lightpainting tools, without their support this would have been much more difficult. It was a great experience and we are very happy with the final photo”

Making of Video:

How to light paint with machines is a little video created by Bastien Sumi that may spark an idea or two, check it out. If you have any questions Bastein is happy to help hit him up at bastien.sumi [at] gmail.com