Yes thats right Light Painting Videography… Light Painter Patrick Rochon has just released a trippy new light painting music video that he created along with Annie Pigeon, Pierre Tremblay, and Thomas Csano. Endless hours over a 3 month period were spent creating the Polyday video for APIGEON and everything you see was illuminated with hand held light sources! Pushing the boundaries of video and light painting Patrick said “This became an “out of the box” music video experiment not following any conventions”. Check out the video and making of video below. For the full details head over to Patricks blog HERE.

APigeon – Polyday (Official Video)

MAKING OF POLYDAY

Light Painting Photographer Eric Pare has created a light painting style that is instantly recognizable as his own using a common and inexpensive piece of lighting equipment called a Fluorescent Tube Guard. By simply inserting one or two lights into the end of the tube guard Eric has essentially created a giant light saber that he is using to create his signature work. Eric first spotted the the magic tubes at the TAP Plastic store while he was in San Francisco holding a Light Painting Workshop. Since that special day less than one year ago Eric has traveled the globe with tubes in hand creating exquisite imagery along with his partner in crime the lovely Kim Henry. Check out some of his incredible images and the just released behind the scenes video below called “Signs of Light”! Also make sure to join Eric’s Facebook group where you can learn all about his work and light painting techniques and for even more images and info check out the full Signs of Light project Here.

Recently Photographer Erik Christian shared these really cool Light Painting Portraits that he created for the Varsity 845 All-Star Basketball teams. To create these images Erik used a mix of constant light covered with colored gels matching the team’s colors and the pop of a couple of off camera strobes to freeze the motion of the athletes. Check out the images and the behind the scenes video below showing just how these perfectly executed Light Painting Portraits were created.

Eric Paré has just released another awesome light painting video project called KHAOS LP. This short video was all lit by hand in one night using a single flashlight and a 4×6 plexi blade. Prepare your eyes for 30 seconds of Light Painting KHAOS… For the full story check out Eric’s Site HERE

Eric says” We’re proud to release today KHAOS LP (the light-painting mashup of the short film KHAOS) as well as the first online version of of the original short movie itself, after a succesful presentation at Les Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois. The light-painting part has been all shot in one crazy night at my studio with 32 cameras and an acrylic plate. Everything is lit by hand in one second. The stop-motion is created one frame at a time by carefully changing pose by about one inch between each shot. I managed to completley disapear by wearing my black ninja costume.”

The 360 degree stop-motion technique I’m doing is fully explained in my short documentary LightSpin.

Synopsis
The paths of Nicholas, Judith and Clara cross accidentally inside a hotel room. A no man’s land which is the gateway to another dimension. The darker side of the psyche, this dimension is where subconscious nightmares and fantasies become real.

KHAOS LP credits:
Project director – Kays Mejri
360° bullet-time light-painting – Eric Paré
Video editor – Ange Amargier
Actors – Julian Fiset, Melissa Paulson, Hannah Dorozio
Original soundtrack – Anonspeak
Art director – Jessica Surendorff

Getting ready for a night of Light Painting takes a little bit of work and it takes some preparation. We have all been there, getting ready for a night out and now we need to decided what tools to bring. The fact is, the easier our Light Painting tools are to use the more likely we are to use them. Take the PixelStick, arguably the most technically advanced light painting device created to date, however this tool takes a tiny bit of work to set up. I know there are a few of you PixelStick owners that have left this light painting tool behind because you didn’t want to have to tighten down those screws and put that “thing” together. Well fear the screw twisting and plugging cables no more because John Griffin, creator of the SpiroJib, has shared a clever “Hack” to make a PixelStick ready to use right out of the bag. Check it out below…

Here are a few shots Johnny created recently while sharing the Light Painting Art Form with his local School.