The Light Painting Brush System

The most common question that I get besides “Is That Photoshop” is “What kind of light tools do you use?”

Like most light painters I have used everything you can think of to modify light. Over my years of Light Painting many of my light modifiers have been empty plastic bottles. The problem I had, and I think many of us have, was that to connect my flashlights to the bottles or to other light modifiers for that matter, I had to use tape. This meant my lights were fixed to one color or texture of light. I had to carry a bunch of lights and light modifiers all the time, if I wanted a brighter flashlight attached to a different light modifier I had to rip the tape off and start over, I ruined my good flashlights with the sticky residue from the tape, using the tape method was very limiting and it just sucked. I wanted a way to be able to universally connect any light I wanted to any light modifier and I wanted to be able to change them quickly and easily.

3 years ago I set out to solve this problem and to create a system of tools that I call “Light Painting Brushes”. I wanted to make something that would be Universal and work with most flashlights on the market! I wanted the System to be simple to use and most importantly it had to be affordable.  After many ridiculously complex prototypes, that didn’t work and would have been way too expensive, the simple and remarkable Universal Connector was finally created.

The Universal Connector is the key that unlocks the “Light Painting Brushes” System. It is a durable rubber fitting that allows you to universally connect literally millions of light emitting devices to a limitless array of custom light modifiers and light painting tools. The Light Painting Brushes allows tools and/or lights to be changed quickly and easily allowing many different “light painting brushes” and lights to be interchanged during a single exposure. Using the Light Painting Brushes Universal Connector you can attach any light emitting device, flashlight, or torch that is relatively round and has a diameter of .975″ to 1.5″  to a variety of custom light painting brushes.

Something that was tremendously important to me when designing this system is the innovation in our light painting community. My favorite feature of the Light Painting Brush System is that the Universal Connector was designed to not only fit the custom line of Light Painting Brushes but it also fits any standard plastic water or soda bottle. If you are on a tight budget or one of the many innovators in our community you can create your own light painting tools out of empty plastic bottles.

The Light Painting Brushes and Universal Connector is a system that you can build on for your entire light painting career. When you get it in your hands and the endless possibilities CLICK, your mind will be blown! I will be working hard to produce new and exciting tools and light modifiers as we move forward, but I know the community will make modifiers that I would never dream of and I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE WHAT YOU CREATE!

Thank you all for your inspiration and support over the years, I hope you love this as much as I do! Check out the short product intro below and for a lot MORE check out LightPaintingBrushes.com