Yes I said a phone designed for light painting. I am pretty sure you can also call people and send text messages but who cares? The camera on this phone was specifically designed with long exposure photography in mind, and that is pretty awesome! Photographer and all around creative genius Ben Von Wong is onboard producing the video below to give us a glimpse of what the Huawei P8 can do…

The best live light painting software on the market just got an upgrade! Light Painting Artist Joerg Miedza and all around genius Josh Beckwith have been hard at work developing the Light Paint Live software for version 2.0 and I must say they have done a hell of a job creating an easy to use and versatile real time light painting tool!

Light Paint Live is a great software for seeing in realtime what you are creating while light painting and personally I think it has huge possibilities in the world of the Live Light Painting Performance! There are a few versions of the Light Paint Live software including the new and improved Mercury 2.0 which runs on google chrome that you can use to create and record full 1080P live light painting videos via a webcam or DSLR (with a plugin)! There are also 3 versions of an free open source Light Paint Live for developers!

Check out the images (by Joerg Miedza) and video (by Josh Beckwith) below to get a feel for what the new and improved software can do. After that head over to Light Paint Live to find out more and get the software right now for only $4.99!

You probably know about Andrew Whyte’s DOME tool created out of a bike tire, if you don’t click HERE. Andrew’s dome tool is a clever way to use a bike wheel as a light painting tool, but that leaves the question WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE BIKE!?! A few weeks back Light Painter John Griffin shared a new light painting contraption with me that he had been working on, after picking myself up off the floor I found out John is calling his contraption the SpiroJib and it is F@!$ing amazing. I think its a tool the community is gonna be pretty excited about, I can see it even starting a mini Light Painting Evolution for the DIY light painters out there.

Inspired by this months Light Painting Photography contest themed Kinetic Light Painting, John set out to build a camera rig that would take camera rotation to a whole new level. Quickly the camera rig morphed into building the world’s first standing Light Painting Spirograph called the SpiroJib! The SpiroJib is a mechanical masterpiece made from the various pieces parts of a bike. The way it works is you chop a bike frame, weld a couple of sprockets, attach a “Light Bar”, throw in some ball bearings, run a chain around all of that, attach it on top of a light stand and power this beauty by hand cranking magic Light Painted Spirographs vertically in mid air!

Below are some samples of the same light illuminated while cranked around on the different sprockets.

I don’t think I need to tell you the endless possibilities that the SpiroJib brings to the Light Painting game, now whip the drool off of your keyboard and prepare yourself to get to work. The build of the SpiroJib is fairly complex and it will take some special tools and skill to build one but the good news is that John has created a detailed PDF available here, and he also made a detailed video walkthrough of the build itself (see below).

The giving spirit of the Light Painting Community never ceases to amaze me. John put a ton of work into creating the SpiroJib, the detailed PDF build guide and the Video. He did all of this work and he is giving it to all of us for nothing. I think I speak for the entire Light Painting Community when I say THANK YOU JOHN!

If you would like to see more of Johns work, ask him a few questions, or just say thanks check out his Facebook page HERE.

P.S. What is it with bikes and light painting tools?!?

I made a new tutorial on how to create an “Electric Orb” using some of the Light Painting Brushes. Apologies for the bad audio… but Enjoy.

Light Painting Tutorial

Light Painting Photographer Jason D. Page shows you how to create an “Electric Orb” using some tools from Light Painting Brushes. This Orb was inspired by Light Painter Darren Hopkins
https://www.facebook.com/darren.hopkins.121

The Light Painting Brushes was developed by Jason D. Page to create a Universal, Simple, and Affordable System of Light Painting Tools for everyone. In this Light Painting Tutorial the Light Painting Brushes used to create this image are:
The Universal Connector
Coast G26
Plexiglass Rectangle Light Painting Brush
22″ Sword Light Painting Brush (Pink)
22″ Sword Light Painting Brush (Purple)

http://lightpaintingbrushes.com

http://www.jasondpage.com

P.S. SORRY FOR THE POOR AUDIO.

Light Painting Photographer Joerg Miedza was helping his daughter with her science homework recently, when inspiration struck. Young Miedza was asking her dad about energy and how it worked. Thankfully Joerg remember a little experiment that he did when he was back in school. He thought that it would be a great way to teach his daughter a little more about energy. Joerg grabbed a few potatoes and headed to the garage, shorty after he invited his daughter to come see the Potato Power LED Light he had created. Using some nails, a few pieces of copper wire, and five 1 cent coins, Joerg connected 5 potatoes in a series. The series of potatoes created about 3 Volts of electricity, just enough to illuminate a single LED for some light painting fun. Check out the images below.

Here is a little video tutorial on how to create your own Potato Power.