January/February Light Painting Photography Contest

The theme for the first light painting photography contest of 2013 is to create a Kinetic light painting image. What the hell is a kinetic light painting you may ask, well friend this is where the light source is static, a.k.a. NOT MOVING and you MOVE the camera to create the design within the frame. Some people use a technique like this one from Tobias Richter:

Using this technique, Tobias created radical images like these.

and some like the infamous Tacky Shack prefer to be a little more wreckless and throw their cameras in the air in a technique known as a “Camera Toss”. Here is one of those, If you do this technique with your new 5D Mark III your dumb.

If you would like to see about 600 more of these awesome camera toss light paintings from Tacky Shack click here.

Personally I think that you should wait til about midnight, set up a slip and slide down a long hill in a random place, run some LED lights on the sides, put your camera in a ziplock and slide away. Then submit your single best kinetic light painting image to contest(at)lightpaintingphotography.com by the 21th of February 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 image 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.

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