For the promotion and progression of Light Painting Art and Artist.
October 1st and 2nd Light Painting Photographer Patrick Rochon gave a free light painting workshop that was absolutely amazing, if you missed it that sucks for you but you do still have a chance.
Patrick is an awesome guy and incredible light painter who inspires so many of us. In the 2 day workshop Patrick shared many of tools, tips, and his own personal trade secrets that he has used to create mind blowing images over the last 20 years.
How to light paint with machines is a little video created by Bastien Sumi that may spark an idea or two, check it out. If you have any questions Bastein is happy to help hit him up at bastien.sumi [at] gmail.com
Check out this video of the blissful light painting duo of Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke better known as Lightmark on a light painting expedition to Greenland where they created the beautiful image below “No. 66”.
“Making of” from Lightmark No.66
For more information follow: www.lightmark.de
About Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke
A moon of light in the noon of night
“Lightmark,” the body of work by Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke, was created by photographing moving light sources at night. The resultant ethereal images inhabit a dramatic and often eerie landscape. Long exposures , up to an hour in length, are required to allow torchlight to take form and for the very low level of ambient light, usually from the moon, to illuminate the scenery. Seen through the viewfinder, the landscape often appears as solidly black. Using a digital medium format camera for their photography, Goepel and Warnecke focus on photographic techniques rather than post processing to achieve the results they are aiming for. The couple travels across the world to find hidden landscapes that are yet to be captured and portrayed as a light painting
Screw you steel wool your sooooo 2012.
Barry Elder of Van Elder Photography has taken inspiration from photographic superstar Von Wong and some technical know-how from Tamed Fire on YouTube to create his unique version of the Sparkle Poi. Barry used this new invention to create some fantastic light painting fire rain effects, best of all he created a very detailed text and video tutorial for the rest of us that don’t want to go through all that trouble of figuring things out on our own.
Below is the video tutorial but I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU CLICK HERE to read the full text of this fire rain light painting tutorial and safety information.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS ONE KIDS SO PLEASE BE CAREFUL AND DONT BURN YOURSELF OR YOUR HOUSE DOWN UNLESS THAT IS YOUR PLAN BECAUSE YOUR NEED THE INSURANCE MONEY.
Incredible new images and a beautiful explanation of his light painting work from Patrick Rochon. The Light Painting KATA.
Getting to the essence of what I do,
I now understand that light painting is above all, movement.
To me, it is a mix of dancing and martial arts.
Light moves everywhere all the time.
Our bodies are emitting light and expressing something subtle but important.
We must see it and understand it.
We must reveal it’s secrets and knowledge.
I believe it is a key connected to our consciousness.
The light painting KATA is the expression of the light we move and create everyday and the trace we leave behind.
-PATRICK ROCHON
From Wikipedia:
In Japanese language, kata (though written as 方) is a frequently-used suffix meaning “way of doing,” with emphasis on the form and order of the process.
Other meanings are “training method” and “formal exercise.”
The goal of a painter’s practicing, for example, is to merge his consciousness with his brush; the potter’s with his clay; the garden designer’s with the materials of the garden.
Once such mastery is achieved, the theory goes, the doing of a thing perfectly is as easy as thinking it.