Light Painting Photographer Tobias Richter has been making some really awesome kinetic light painting photographs. He recently posted a video showing his technique. The video with no audio??? is a little long and dull, but the technique and the results are pretty f@#*ing amazing. Check it out.
November December Light Painting Photography Contest
The theme for the light painting photography contest for the months of November/December is to create a light painting image using only ONE SINGLE UNMODIFIED FLASHLIGHT. For this contest we are getting back to the basics. You can create anything that you would like portrait, graffiti, landscape, etc…. but it must be created with just ONE SINGLE UNMODIFIED FLASHLIGHT. This light painting contest was put forth by the great Patrick Rochon with the idea that the single light will “push the artist to be creative all using the same tool”.
Submit your images to contest(at)lightpaintingphotography.com by the 21th of December a.k.a THE END OF THE WORLD… to win your LPP prize pack and a featured post on the website! Please remember to follow the THEME of the contest and resize your images to 600 pixels on the longest side and 72 dpi. If you do not follow the theme of the contest your image will not be accepted, and as always no F#@&*! photoshop.
Here are a few examples from Janne Parviainen, Lightmark, and Quentin Bischoff.
St. Augustine Lighthouse Light Painting Animation
St. Augustine, the nation’s oldest city, has a long history and reputation for being haunted. The St. Augustine lighthouse is a world-famous haunt, where a former caretaker is said to roam its spiraled stairs, along with two children who may have died there. Check out this awesomely spooky light painting animation created by Brady Bigalke.
Halloween is coming up send in your most horrific and fear inducing light painting images to admin(at)lightpaintingphotography.com by Oct 29th and we will share them on the website.
St. Augustine Lighthouse Animation from Noble Light Productions on Vimeo.
September-October Light Painting Photography Contest Entries
Here are the entries for the September/October light painting photography contest. Everyone PLEASE VOTE in the comments section of this page to pick your top 3 images, the images all have a number in the title (EXAMPLE… IF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITES IS THE IMAGE TITLED “OCTOBER LIGHT PAINTING CONTEST 7″ THEN YOU SHOULD PUT THE NUMBER 7 AS ONE OF YOUR CHOICES). When casting your vote PLEASE remember the theme of this contest was to create a Light Graffiti or Light Calligraphy light painting image.
Voters that do not include 3 unique choices in their post will not be counted. In other words no 1,1,1, or 5,5,5, or 9,9,9…..Please pick your three favorite IMAGES based on the image alone.
This light painting contest is sponsored by the greatest flashlight company in the whole universe COAST! The Winner of the light painting contest wins a prize light painting photography prize pack with super awesome Coast Flashlights!!!
Ultraísta- Our Song Light Painting Music Video
This light painting music video from Ultraísta just popped up on Rolling Stone Magazine’s website. Pretty basic as far as light painting goes but still some good exposure for our art form.
From Rolling Stone:
Nigel Godrich has been a principle mastermind of Radiohead’s ever-evolving sonic palate, and he’s a member of Atoms for Peace with Thom Yorke and Flea. Now Godrich brings his talents to Ultraista, an experimental electronic trio with singer Laura Bettinson and Atoms drummer Joey Waronker. The U.K. trio, who make their U.S. live debut tonight in Los Angeles, took a trippy, spastic turn on their video for “Our Song,” from their recent self-titled debut LP. The clip is mesmerizing as the three band members use light painting techniques to spell out various songs lyrics, in addition to smiley faces, stars and sonic wavelengths. Elsewhere, Waronker chops away at his stand-up drum kit while Bettinson and Godrich grasp something resembling a handheld firecracker.
