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Light Painting Photographer Eric Pare is known for pushing the boundaries and taking things to the next level in his Light Painting Work! Eric can now add being one of the first Light Painters to successfully venture into the world of NFT’s to his resume with his first NFT Drop that completely sold out! After learning about this amazing launch (that I wish I would have got in on in time to get one) I reached out to Eric to share his experience in the NFT space with the Light Painting Community! Below is the interview that Eric was kind enough to answer, hopefully your can learn a thing or two and maybe try your luck with this exciting new way to make some money from your Light Painting Photography!

LPP ∇  Hey Eric thank you for taking the time to answer some questions about this exciting new opportunity for Light Painting Artist! My first question is how would you explain what an NFT is to someone who has never heard of one before?

EP ∇  An NFT is a certificate of ownership of a digital asset on the blockchain. The example that is always used is the Mona Lisa. There is a single one of this. You can take a picture of the Mona Lisa, but it doesn’t hold any value. A NFT is a digital version of this. It is a unique contract that defines the ownership of the piece. This has nothing to do with copyrights or commercial rights.

LPP ∇  Was selling NFT’s something that you were actively seeking out to do for yourself or were you approached by someone or some entity to do your first NFT drop?

EP ∇  I was curious about NFTs just as most of the photographers out there. I worked with Sloika.xyz for my first drop as I had no experience or knowledge about NFTs back then. They made the whole process very smooth and they made sure that the contract was properly made for my needs. My second drop was on Foundation which was quite straightforward as I had much more experience at that point.

LPP ∇  On a technical level from scale of 1-10 One being super easy and ten being extremely difficult how hard was it to “Mint” your NFT’s?

EP ∇  Easier than it sounds! There’s a whole bunch of new things to learn when it comes to NFTs, but there are plenty of tutorials available, and the community is very helpful. The best place to learn is through the Twitter Spaces (audio conversations)

LPP ∇  Does minting the NFT cost anything on the front end before you actually make a sale?

EP ∇  Yes! It can cost a couple of hundred dollars just to mint one piece (gas fees). There are other platforms on which it is possible to mint for cheaper, but the main ones are on the Ethereum crypto currency and gas fees are quite expensive at the moment

LPP ∇  How were your NFT’s sold, did you do an auction format or did you pick a set price for your images? If you did the set price how did you come up with your price tag for the NFT’s?

EP ∇  My first collection of 9 items has been sold on Sloika within a few days for a total of 1.8E (7400$USD), and some of the items have been placed for sale by the new owners for up to 5E. Then on Foundation, I set my first piece at 2E (8200$USD) and it got sold within a week. We did the promotion mostly on Twitter.

LPP ∇  Without getting too much into the technical aspects, I understand that within the contract of an NFT you will also benefit from the future sales of your work! I think this is the greatest aspect of the NFT from a creators perspective, can you tell me a little bit more about what you will receive from the future sales of your work?

EP ∇  What’s interesting here is that the creator gets 10% of the secondary sales. But the secondary sale can be way above the initial price, meaning that the revenues are sometimes significant. That being said, photographies are not traded that much (as opposed to the craziness we see with PFP projects like Cryptopunks or BoredApes)

LPP ∇  Thats exciting! Last question, what advice would you give to someone looking to mint their first NFT?

EP ∇  Get on Twitter, follow successful NFT photographers and spend weeks learning about the topic. Join their Twitter Spaces, interact with them, interact with other newcomers. It’s complex, it’s new, it’s modern, it’s a totally different mindset. NFTs are part of the Web3 and a fundamental part of this is the “WGMI” (we’re going to make it). It’s a collective project. It’s far from the “Instagram influencer” business model we’re used to hearing about.

Don’t mint anything right away thinking you’re going to make a couple of ETH. Take the time to really craft your art and have a solid story. Be part of the community, help others, interact with collectors.

Once you take the plunge into NFTs, you’ll stop thinking about irrelevant things like when to post on Instagram or your number of followers. Your art is going to be your priority. Fine tune your best pieces as you know that once you’re going to mint them, they’ll be forever part of the blockchain.

As a reference, here’s what I prepared for my NFTs (for my collectors)
https://ericpare.com/night-reflection-one
https://ericpare.com/frzn

LPP ∇  Thank you again for taking the time to answer these questions and share your knowledge with the community!  Congratulations on all your success and I am sure you will have many more successful drops in the future! 

Unless you live under a rock I am sure you have heard that NFT or (non fungible tokens) are all the rage in the world of collectables these days. The concept behind NFT’s, especially with Projects like THETA, with their Digital Rights Management is really intriguing. I am not going to get into all the technical stuff behind how NFT’s work but something that I personally think is game changing is the fact that if you assign an NFT to your digital asset (Light Painting) you can essentially get paid every time your image sells going forward. When you or someone in the future sells your image the NFT assigned to it, via a smart contract, you will pay you a percentage of the sale forever! Lets say you sell your Light Painting NFT today for $100. a year from now the world catching on to how amazing you are and that same Light Painting now sells for $1,000,000.00! Via the smart contract assigned to your Light Painting NFT you can get whatever % you assigned to it, let’s say 10%. This can happen every time the NFT sells forever, creating passive income! That is good for ALL types of artists!

Anyway enough on that, the point of this article is to share that Lamborghini is launching their very first NFT and IT’S A LIGHT PAINTING, yes the image above! This Light Painting was created by photographer Paulo Renftle The NFT Drop goes live on September 25th! Lord only knows what these things are gonna sell for but if you’ve got some bucks to spend you can check it out here https://www.elysiumbridge.org/live

Light Painting Artist Bernhard Rauscher is launching an interesting Kick Starter Campaign with Inspiracles that he asked me to share. The project will create Photography Inspiration Cards. Each deck comes with 56 cards in durable, high-quality packaging. The cards will be printed extra-large in size (twice the size of typical playing cards). Each card consists of three sections:

1. An inspirational prompt to trigger your imagination
2. Pro tips for photographic implementation
3. Examples to use for extra inspiration

 

Here is where the Light Painting comes in, as part of the Kick Starter Campaign they will be including an Extended Edition of Digital Only Cards for Light Painting Photography and you can have your work featured on these cards! This is a great opportunity to share your work and most importantly help to inspire others! If you would like to submit your work to be included in the Light Painting edition of the Inspiration Cards then Click HERE to submit your work.

Here is an example of how the digital inspiration cards will look!

Light Painting Photographer Mart Barras creates some mind blowing images and one of the techniques he frequently utilizes in his light painting work is the Lens Cap Technique. If you are not familiar with what Lens Capping is, basically you are covering your lens with something while the exposure is still running so that you can move the camera or otherwise change the scene without the camera recording any unwanted lights.

One of the problems with lens capping is that you either need to cap the lens yourself by walking back to camera or you need to have an assistant do it for you. If you don’t have an assistant and you are shooting an image where its difficult to back to camera, especially in the dark, then this can become a major challenge to creating the image you envision.

Mart has come us with a simple yet genius solution that he calls the Gimpomatic 2000! Mart says it’s a work in progress and he hopes to revise it to make it better as the idea progresses. He is also happy to see how other light painters will modify it and use it in their own different ways. The Gimpomatic 2000 is basically a remote Pan head mounted to a light stand (or tripod) and a 3D Printed Black Flag, simple and genius! Check out the images and video below of this innovative contraption and a the bottom of the page is a full list of the parts you need to make your own! Make sure to throw Mart a thank you and tag him in your images if you use this technique so he can check them out! Thank you Mart for sharing your ingenuity! Check out more of Mart’s incredible light painting work on his Facebook and Instagram too!

Here is a list of the 3 parts needed to create the Gimpomatic 2000.
1. Remote Pan Head

2. 1/4″ Aluminium tripod screw

3. 3D printed flag, probably best to paint this even if you print in with black material.
Best print in PLA and print with the face with the hole down on the bed, no supports needed. Weight of this part 98-99 grams
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2511632

You can have this file printed for a few bucks at any place that has a 3D printer in your town if you don’t have one yourself. You could also make a similar flag out of cardboard and glue if you do not have access to a 3D printer, but it obviously won’t be as cool.