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At the age of 36 Light Painting Photographer Ulrich Tausend already has some great life accomplishments under his belt. He has owned and sold a successful gaming company, he has helped to organize numerous large scale events, and is currently working at the JFF – Institute for Media Research and Media Education in Munich Germany. Over the last few years Ulrich has set his sites on setting a World Record for the Most People Creating a Light Painting! Recently I had the opportunity to talk to Uli about his record breaking work and his passion for sharing the Light Painting Art Form in his unique way. Check out the interview below…

LPP ∇ Uli, Congratulations on your wonderful work sharing light painting and your dedication to setting a light painting world record. Seeing all those people light painting together is really something special! Can you tell me a little more about yourself?

UT ∇  Lighting has always been an important topic in my photography. I started with Light Painting some years ago and I really like to explore what I can do with this Art Form.
While it is fun to do orbs and ufos and so on, I prefer to work with people. Most of my light paintings involve people in one way or the other. I like interaction, especially with newbies who don’t know about light painting yet and therefore often have really fresh ideas. It is always exciting to see people experience the magic of light painting for the first time. I am also very involved with education, I love the sparkle in the eyes of students. For the last two years I have been working at the JFF – Institute for Media Research and Media Education in Munich/Germany. I have a history of game design and owned a computer games company before selling it in 2008. Since then I have focused on media education but I am still involved with serious game design. I am a Sociologist.

LPP ∇ Does the name of your website 1000Lights relate to your passion for sharing light painting and education or something else?
UT ∇ My surname “Tausend” means “Thousand” in english. I use 1000lights as my light painting pseudonym.

LPP ∇ Is this the first time you have created a Light Painting on a large scale with many participants, or have you done something like this before?
UT ∇ Two years ago (2013) I organized the Kids Photo Award in Munich. There we first tried out creating an “audience light painting”.

UT ∇ The kids really loved it. *See more about the Audience Light Painting 2013.

In 2014 we repeated the event on a larger scale trying to set an official world record. Making an official record involving many people actually posed to be a bit tricky. Guinness World Records only wrote us about what we actually had to do to get it accepted after the event and their guidelines are pretty tough if you don’t pay to get some one from Guinness involved.

UT ∇ Since then I did several other “audience lightpaintings”. I especially liked the ones at the Ohrenblick Mal 2013 and and Mobile Clip Festival 2014. There we did something a bit more tricky. The people who won the award would freeze and put light on themselves with their smartphones. The others would add drawings.

UT ∇ In 2014 we also had a Pixelstick to “print” the logo of the event.

LPP ∇ What a great way to share Light Painting! Tell me about this most recent record attempt. Where was the event held, was it just to break the record or was this also part of some other event?
UT ∇ The world record took place at the re:publica conference about digital society. For the conference I handed in a proposal about new computer aided light painting techniques and I also proposed to set the record during the closing ceremony. Both proposals were declined. I also had another proposal for using Minecraft in Schools which was accepted so I went to the conference. The Minecraft session was pretty cool. We built our presentation in Minecraft itself which was a topic on the conference. I talked with one of the organizers of the conference (Jonny Hauesler) about it when the topic of light painting came up. He found it really interesting and asked me if we could still realize it. That was on the afternoon on 6.5.2015.  At 22:00 he confirmed that they talked to the team and agreed to have the event during the massive closing ceremony on the next day!  Incredible how flexible and open they are but that meant I had only couple of hours to prepare. During the night I planned everything. Back home in Munich I have a lot of equipment, but I was in Berlin with only a little light painting “travel” bag. In the morning I bought myself an extreme wide angle lens (Panasonic 7-14mm =14-28mm, f4) for my Olympus OMD EM-10. As I wanted the best possible setup I also borrowed a Nikon N800 with another 14mm extreme wide angle. That was actually not that easy as the company wanted a lot of money as security and there was only a little time to get it.

LPP ∇ Woah were you panicking or were you pretty calm because you had done audience light paintings before?
UT ∇ It was a pretty intense situation, but I was not panicking. I had done similar photos before, only on a smaller scale. I was pretty well prepared (considering the short time frame). My colleague Maximilian Vilser (who controled the pixelstick) also helped a lot. Also Lilian Kura and her friends were really nice. She is a professional writer and checked over my tweets to announce the event and she and her friends really spread the word. To give you an insight into what we thought about, only an hour before the actual photo took place we stopped a plan to get the camera to a even more elevated position. We would have either used a high ladder or even a lifting ramp, but both possibilities seemed to be too unstable to get a steady shot. Also it would have lengthened the event and I was a bit worried to tumble from the ladder with 2500 people watching me.

LPP ∇ Yes that would not have been good, lol. What about the lights for the participants, did you supply the lights or did they just use what they had available?
UT ∇  As I was traveling and not expecting to do a world record attempt I only had 10 lights with me, several helping angels distributed these. But 98% of the lights present were smartphone-flashlights from the audience. With more time to prepare many more people would have taken their own colored lights with them or I could have provided more colored lights to add more texture. You can see my pixelstick on the back left side of the picture writing the tag of the event #rp15lights. We did not know how many people would be at the event, so we wanted to close a gap in the back. But directly before the event more and more people came in and it was really packed. So the Pixelstick is partially blocked by people.

LPP ∇ How many people were actually involved in this image?
UT ∇ From what I heard 2500 people fit into that stage as you can see the stage was full when the event took place.

LPP ∇ WOW! How long was the set up, how did you explain the light painting process to all 2500 people, sometimes it is difficult to get 1 or 2 people to understand the Light Painting process.
UT ∇ During the closing ceremony I briefly explained what everybody had to do (take lights and move them or try to draw something). There were two short pauses before the closing ceremony which I used to try out the camera set up and we were also able to dim the lights for a moment for one test photo. I also had someone help me and press the shutter on the second camera.

LPP ∇ How long was the actual exposure for the image? Did you only have one take or several?
UT ∇ We did two takes, both from two perspectives. The exposure for both times were just 10 seconds and that was it, no retakes possible. I then ran back to the tech guys, cropped the photo in lightroom and they put it into their presentation. 12:00 minutes after the the shot it was presented on stage:

LPP ∇ Obviously you were not able to have a Guinness Representative because of the very short notice so are you going to submit this to try and get the Official record?
UT ∇ I am waiting for the video and some more photos from the front to try to hand in with them.

LPP ∇ I am sure I speak for all of the light painting community when I say WE HOPE YOU GET IT! One last question, what is it that drives you to share Light Painting in this way?
UT ∇ It is a combination of many things: Getting to know light painting astonishes people, it often sets a creative spark in them and is a lot of fun. Spreading the word of Light Paiting is my little humble way to make the world a slightly better place. Just seeing how the people react, they love it. It is pretty cool to stand in front of a huge crowd all waving lights.
But probably most important is that it fits in my own way of doing art. I like to bring people into situations where they have a feeling they never experienced before or do things they never thought of beforehand. In a way you could say that I like to manipulate people through art to discover and grow. Some will criticise events like this and question its artistic value. Instead of few doing professional light painting in a very planned and high quality way, it is many fresh minds trying it out without previous preconception of it. It is something unique which I think you can’t judge with usual quality standards which you apply to other light paintings. For me it is art nevertheless – or you could say it is art especially because of that difference.

LPP ∇ Is there anything else you would like to add?
UT ∇ The event itself was filmed but the video is not yet online. Several people filmed from within the audience. You can find some videos and other coverage on my page 1000lights.de/rp15. The tag of the event (#rp15lights) went trending (most tweeted) in Germany straight away. You can find more of my light painting pictures on 1000lights.de and my Facebook page.

In addition to the “audience light paintings” I have some other light painting specialities: – Again I like to interact through light painting with people who don’t have experience with it yet. That especially works well, if the people can see how the photo is coming along, while they are shooting it. – I experiment with my pixel stick and other programmable lights. The QVED Conference and the Mobile Clip Festival 2014 are nice examples for that.  I am also working on live light shows with a VJ. but we still a way to go there.

LPP ∇ Thank you very much please keep up the incredible work!
UT ∇ Thank you very much.

Here is a little teaser video from the event until we can bring you the full version.

Unless you have been living under a rock or in a comma for the last year you have probably heard of the light painting tool called The PixelStick. The Pixelstick is that light painting tool that looks a lot like Michael Ross’s Digital Light Wand created around 2010, huh hummmm… The Pixelstick received mass exposure and raised nearly 6 times its Kickstarter funding goal, a total of $628,417.00 to go into production! That was in December of 2013, well just about a month ago veteran Light Painter Ian Hobson got a hold of one of the first production models. Ian was kind enough to put The Pixelstick through its paces and write an in depth, honest and impartial review to let us all know if its worth the $325.00, check it out below.

Images and words by (Ian Hobson)
I have no axe to grind, nor am I an evangelist for fancy tools, but I am passionate about light painting. I want to share my thoughts with others who take the artform seriously, and are not simply looking for a ‘magic bullet’ style device to turn them into spectacularly competent light painters overnight. So by writing this, I’m doing nothing more than calling it how I see it. I’m not sure how well kickstarter projects usually do, but Bitbanger Labs must have been pretty pleased with how their second one turned out. It seemed that almost as soon as they’d set up the kickstarter for the Pixelstick, it had exceeded it’s required target and was set to become a real product. Now it is a real product, and is one of very few commercially available dedicated light painting tools.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, the Pixelstick is an array of 200 addressable RGB LEDs. This means each LED can produce almost any colour, and each one can be instructed to flash on and off at a particular speed and colour sequence. With the right set of instructions, the LEDs can be used to mimic the pixels of a bitmapped image, so as the Pixelstick is moved through space, the LEDs effectively ‘draw’ the bitmap in midair and can be captured during a long exposure photograph.

As a concept, this is not new. The first such light painting tool appeared a few years ago and in January 2010, pioneering work by Mike Ross (TxPilot on Flickr) used the open source Arduino platform to send the instructions to the LEDs. ( Mike’s first example of this is here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/txross/4268235686)
At the time, this required some tricky manipulation to generate the code to ‘paint’ a bitmap, and the hardware had to be self-assembled. The amount of technical effort made doing this quite a headache, and despite Mike’s excellent online tutorial describing how to build what he dubbed the ‘Digital Light Wand’ many people who were keen to try it, were put off by the headache inducing complications of self-build.
Subsequently, other versions of the concept were tried, such as the LightScythe by ‘Mechatronics Guy’ in Australia, and more recently electronics component suppliers Adafruit have published online tutorials on using the latest versions of addressable LED strips with Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms. But this still requires the user to self-build, and this puts a lot of people off.

Bitbanger Labs filled the gap in the market in October 2013 when they launched their kickstarter project to produce an ‘off the shelf’ version of this concept. Happily for them, they reached their target with 5 weeks to spare, and the Pixelstick went into production in early 2014, and started shipping in the late summer. Bitbanger are marketing it as a game changer, claiming it will ‘Change the way you take photographs forever’.
So does it live up to the hype?

The main thing that stands out is the Pixelstick is pretty much plug-and-play. There’s no mucking about with soldering irons, no banging your head at a screen trying to program arduino code. There’s minimal assembly, slap a bitmap onto an SD card and away you go. For those who aren’t sure how to manipulate a bitmap, Bitbanger provide a few pre-loaded test patterns that don’t even require an SD card, and they also have a few pre-prepared bitmaps for download from their site.

Another major consideration that formed a large part of the pre-release update emails for the Kickstarter is the build quality. Bitbanger seemed quite determined that they would produce a robust piece of kit. They have used extruded aluminum for the backbone and decent quality plastic to form the control box housing the circuitry. The cables are well sheathed and have durable connections to the LED strips and the control box. Nothing rattles about, the LCD screen displaying the user interface is just about the right size to combine ease of use without being so big it gets in the way. The LED strips are good and bright, being able to shine through ambient light well enough to allow it to be used under moderate streetlighting. The LED strip is in two sections, and they fit together snugly, with an adjustable bracket holding the two sections of supporting aluminium securely together. The control box and the battery holder are both attached to the back of the aluminium backbone by adjustable screw fittings, so they can be positioned anywhere along the length of the device. The central bracket also has a fitting to insert a small length of metal rod which serves as a handle, and a surrounding section of tube allows the stick to be spun around the handle should the user so desire.

So far so good, when assembled, the pixelstick feels solid, but is not so heavy as to be unwieldy. At 1.8m length, it’s not something you’d wave about easily like a lightsaber, but there is the option of using only half the LEDs to create a more manageable tool, and it works perfectly well in this configuration if you need to fit it into small spaces where the full length would be a hindrance.

The big winner for me though, is the interface. I’ve used a few variations of self-build Arduino Digital Light Wands, and whilst the current state of the art versions using the adafruit SW2012 Neopixel LEDs have the edge over the pixelstick in terms of image quality, they suffer from less accessible interface. In short, it’s awkward to change from one bitmap to another, or to alter the speed at which the bitmap is displayed by the LEDs. This is where Bitbanger have come up trumps.

The Pixelstick interface is intuitive, being simple to use yet also comprehensive. It allows to user to easily select from the bitmaps loaded onto the SD card, and has a number of other features that indicate the designers did some serious thinking about what light painters would want to do with the device. It allows you to alter the speed, brightness of the bitmap with ease, there’s an option to repeat the bitmap up to 99 times, or even reverse the left-right direction by which the bitmap is displayed. There’s an option for a timer delay, so the LEDs will wait for the prescribed number of seconds before lighting up, all of which increase the creative potential of the device. Another aspect of the interface that shows the designers were thinking of functionality is that the buttons are extruded from the control box enough to allow operation in the dark, i.e. with a bit of practise, they are big enough, and well spaced enough that you can feel where they are without needing to see them. The ‘fire’ button which sends the selected bitmap to the LEDs is set apart, and is bright yellow, which is a small thing, but it helps a lot when you’re jumping about in the dark, as does the separate power switch, which is placed on the top edge of the box, where it’s easily accessible, but out of the way so you don’t hit it by accident when operating the device.

Another function I have not yet had time to explore fully is the ‘Increment’ feature of the interface. This allows sequentially numbered bitmaps to be executed one after another by hitting the ‘fire’ button. Making it very useful for those who seek to create light painted animations of the bitmaps stored on their SD card. Add to this the nice carry bag (handily sporting a bright yellow interior to make it more visible in dark situations, so you don’t find yourself scrambling about looking for it when shooting), the option for inserting different grades of diffuser in front of the LEDs and the ability to trigger the LEDs via a standard wireless remote control, then there are a good number of positive points to be made about this device.

But it can’t be all perfect can it? No. There are a few issues I have with the pixelstick, because I’m a picky so-and-so.

First off, the handle is wrong. It’s a short pole sticking out at right angles from the main section, and it is fixed centrally, so there’s no option to place it where you as an individual feel comfortable with it. A handle more like a pistol grip would have been a better option, as though this wouldn’t allow spinning, it would make it a lot easier to pull the stick through the air, and the way the device is designed, the two types of handle could easily be interchanged.

In terms of the quality of the images it produces, I have no complaints. The firmware interprets 24 bit .bmp files very well indeed. The colours are accurate, and if they seem a bit washed out, then just drop the brightness, or increase your F Stop, and all will be well. The resolution is very good, with 100 LEDs per metre being substantially less than the 144 LED/m available from Adafruits Neopixels, the diffuser compensates to a large extent, and the images do look sufficiently photorealistic. It’s worth putting some dither on tight edged lines in bitmaps though, as I found that the smooth lines from rasterized vector graphics do look a little jaggedy around the edges without a bit of dithering.

I’m also critical of the SD card slot, it’s tight and holds the card well, but the card sticks out slightly. There’s nothing to stop grit/moisture from getting in around the edges to infiltrate the control box, which could become a problem eventually. A flexible cover like those found on cameras covering the usb slots would have been much preferable. But it shouldn’t be too much trouble to make one from Sugru or even just a bit of tape will be better than nothing. A raised plastic ridge around the slot would have been a good thing too, as I’ve noticed a tendency for the card to release when the device is laid down on that side. As the card hits the ground first, it springs out as if you were pushing it with your finger to get it out. A ridge would prevent this.

One last niggle. The firmware seems to ignore trailing or leading black pixels in a bitmap. So if you have a 200px wide black bitmap with a small white dot in the middle, when you hit ‘fire’ the white dot will appear at the edge of the image displayed by the LEDs. I assume there’s a workaround out there, presumably by using a line of pixels that are 99.9% black, but not entirely, so that the firmware doesn’t ignore them, but they’re not bright enough to show up on camera.

In conclusion, the Pixelstick is a decent bit of kit. It’s not a game changer in the way that had been suggested before it’s release, as it’s not offering anything substantially different from the functionality already on offer from it’s precursors, to whom it undeniably owes an unacknowledged debt, and which can be created for a fraction of the price. But if you’re not keen on making your own tools and you’re prepared to shell out the cash, it will offer hours of fun and increase the creative opportunities for light painters.
Other reviewers, perhaps less immersed in the world of light painting have declared it to take long exposure photography to the next level and that it’s the best light painting tool they’ve seen well, that’s a matter of opinion.
For light painting snobs such as myself, the lack of skill required to employ it in it’s most basic form means that the novelty could wear off pretty quickly. But it also means that the creative challenge to use it in ways that go beyond simply dragging a bitmap through the air is worth taking into consideration.
One thing I can confidently state is that it lives up to my expectations, I didn’t expect it to revolutionise my light painting, but I did expect it to be worth the financial outlay in terms of it’s quality of construction and operation, and it is. Above all, I hope it’s success as a business project will inspire other manufacturers to realise that there is a vast untapped market for quality light painting tools out there.

Bottom Line: It’s a good piece of kit and does the job well, but you could make one yourself for less cash.

(LPP Admin NOTE)
One other subject that should be noted are the incredible opportunities Pixelstick offers in the field of stop motion animation using its ‘Increment’ feature as seen in the video below, create by Bitbanger Labs. Check it out and to get your own head on over HERE.

Sometimes is go to go back to the basics. Going out and shooting with just a single light and a camera can be the most refreshing form of light painting. Think of it as getting back to your roots before all the Digital Light Wands and Pixel Sticks. In this new film by Light Painting Photographer Joerg Miedza the goal was just that to get back to the basics. Entitled “The Light Lasso” Joerg describes the work as “Back To Basic – one light, one man, one location” although there are a few different lights used and a couple of locations you get the point. Its a beautifully simple light painting film that is comprised of 2987 still images and was not so simple to make.

Joerg says “It´s hard to do a 100% perfect round circle in a real performance, so you can see the sequences are hopping a little bit. You have to move exactly to end on 360° where you started at 1°, is very tricky. That´s light painting as I know it, it need´s a well prepared and correctly accomplished movement in the dark – if the light painter has moved all fine, the result is awesome. I can tell you, I work hard on perfect movements and the results are getting better and better!”

The film making process was not without a few fails. Joerg says “sometimes my steps were not good enough, sometimes the lamp crashed to a tree or a wall so I would have to redo the production”. In one of the more notable re-takes one of Joerg’s horses walked over in the field to see what all the lights were about… Check out the animated gif of the horse incident and the full Light Lasso film below!

A few years ago I met Jadikan at an art show, we were talking about light painting when he pulled me into a back room to show me a secret project he was working on. Jadikan showed me this ancient looking contraption that was like a wooden version of a Viewmaster toy I had when I was a kid. This old contraption turned out to be a stereoscopic viewer! When I looked inside I saw my first ever analog 3D light painting! Of corse I immediately started running away to try and steal it but he caught me so I had to give it back. A Stereoscopic viewer holds an image known as a stereogram. Basically how it all works is you shoot two images of the exact same scene that are at a slightly different angle from one another, when you put them side by side in the viewer your brain turns the two images into one image with extreme depth.

A 3D light painting was a very exciting thing to see for the first time and I wanted to learn more so I asked a bunch of questions, Jadikan was rightfully quiet about the project and just showed me enough to make my mind race. Now thanks to the SOLID-LIGHT Project I have the answers to all those questions that raced in my mind some 3 years ago. Check out the images, interview, and video below.

LPP ∇ I’m sooooo excited to see this project ready for release, tell me what is behind the Solid-Light Project and who is involved?
JLP ∇ The Solid Light Project’s purpose is: To promote 3D pictures/content with an original stereoviewer.
Behind the “Solid One”‘s step, The Light Painting Photography was created by myself and photographer JF Delamarre, the website was made by another friend and the viewer is from me (using laser cutting machine in a Fab Lab)

LPP ∇ Where the idea come from ?
JLP ∇ I have been interested in stereo photography since I discover it. My first attempt was in 2008, when I had a second digital camera available for the first time. A few months later, I met a guy who was practicing stereo photography with an old film camera on medium format.

LPP ∇ Shooting stereoscopic film has to be pretty difficult? How does that work?
JLP ∇ You have to cut the film and display it correctly between 2 pieces of thin glass to be insert in an old steroviewer.
Not an easy job but when you see inside the viewer, it is just amazing how the depth and the detail jump out at your eyes on the 120 inversible film with magnifying glasses.

LPP ∇ What kind of camera are you shooting with?
JLP ∇ So we started to shoot together with his “Stereflektoskop” from the 30’s. From 2009 to 2014, we have learned a lot about 3D pictures and shot rolls and rolls of film (always invertible) at the same time, I found a few other medium format cameras in specialised shops on the internet.

LPP ∇ How did the project progress into what we see now in the Solid-Light Project?
JLP ∇ As I was started to understand the full process of stereophotography, I wanted to find a way to share thoses 3D works at exhibitions.
Using prints or screens instead of the original film will allow to show easily in different places without the original.
I experimented with different viewers on the market, built a few others by hand and I finally discovered a way to reach my goal of a personal reproducible stereo viewer when I found The Fab Lab network!
Fab Labs are a fair sharing place for computer controlled machines. (laser cutting, 3D printing …)
I went to the closest Fab LAB to start designing a Stereoviewer. It took a few months with different versions to finally present Solid One in a kit – for prints or for using with a smartphone (compatible size).

LPP ∇ How does it work if someone wants to make their own viewer?
JLP ∇ I made the plans available for people want to make their own.
People have 2 choices: Download the .dxf file and use a laser cutting machine to do the job (I use a 3mm thick medium wood for the viewer) or download the pdf, print it and cut it from a 3mm foam board for example. The trickiest part is to find the lenses, I did not find reseller for one piece, so send me an email if you need a sample.

LPP ∇ Whats next for this project?
JLP ∇ The next step of Solid Light is not fully determined, but I have in mind to collaborate with a painter artist to make with “his” 3D boxes. (inside/outside/shape) I also want this tool can be used by other photographers/artists who want to show stereo artworks.

LPP ∇ This is one incredible project and I speak for all of us when I say THANK YOU for all of your hard work and especially for making the stereoscopic viewer freely available for all of us! Anything else you would like to ad?
JLP ∇ I think that this was the right time to make the final touches and launch this project because of the “google cardboard” announcement this summer… (check this out if you don’t know about it)
…Solid One is fully compatible with the Virtual Reality content displayed by google ! 😉

For more info on the Solid Light Project check out the video below and website http://www.solid-light.com/en/ stay up to date with all of Jadikans latest projects on his Facebook page HERE!

All I can say is WOW. This is going to be the greatest event ever organized for light painting in the history of the world. The Light Painting International Congress is going to be held July 4th-6th with workshops, exhibitions, talks, and a variety of other events from International Light Painting Artist! The Light Painting World Exhibition will be held July 4th-13th! Every single person in attendance should give a hug, a high five, a hand shake, or something to light painting artist Alfredo Álvarez, a.k.a. Frodo of Children of Darklight, Herramientas Light Painting OnLine shop and Sergey of LPWA for organizing this INCREDIBLE EVENT! Below is the calendar of events so far, check it out but what you really need to do is head over to http://congresolightartoviedo.com to get all of the details.

CALENDAR / SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, JULY 4TH
18:00 – Inauguration I LightART International Congress City of Oviedo – LPWA Special Event (Multipurpose Room, 1st floor). Credentials control.
18:30 – Opening Act
19:30 – 3rd World Light Painting Exhibition. Welcome cocktail (Exposition Hall. Main Floor)
20.30 – Hugo Baptista Workshop ” Crowd-sourcing a bullet-time light painting stop-motion video “(inscriptions mandatory)
23.30 – Collective Artistic photo show. The Gesta Square

SATURDAY, JULY 5TH
10:30 to 19:30 – Light Painting Call (Call First Floor Tent.). FREE ENTRANCE

SPEECHES (Multipurpose room)
10:00 – Door opening and credentials Control
10:30 – RIDERS OF LIGHT: ” Posibilities and alternatives of light painting photography ”
11:30 – DARIUS TWIN: ” Illustrating with light and evolution of style / technique ”
12:30 – Break
13:00 – JANNEPAINT: ” Visual tricks ”
14:00 – Lunch Break
16.00 – FLASHES IN THE NIGHT: ” Flashes of the Night’s night photography ”
17:00 – SERGEY Churkin (Chukos) “What is lightpainting” + “Historical lecture” (presented by Luis Alberto Fdez)
18:00 – Break
18.30 – DANA MALTBY (TCB): ” Digital double exposure. Covering the Lens ”

20:00 – PERFORMANCE ” Kaleido Light Show “(by Cisco Lightpainting and Will Wildnot)

WORKSHOPS (3rd Floor. Rooms 1 & 2)
12:45 – ” LIGHT PAINTING, CREATIVITY AND COMMITMENT “. The Child of Light.
16.00 – ” LIGHT PAINTING BUILDING AND REPAIRING TOOLS “Ivan Barco Tools Lightpainting
19:00 – ” NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY “. Flashes at Night

21.30 – Dinner and party at La Casona de la Montaña. Video projection, music, exhibition, kaleido light show

23:30 – Workshop: ” LIGHT PAINTING PORTRAIT “. Sergey Churkin
23:30 – Night park walkaround with Special Guests

SUNDAY, JULY 6TH
10:30 – Door opening and credential Control
11:00 – ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: ” Present, past and future of light painting “(. Multipurpose room Moderator The Child of Light)

13:15 – slide show of Audiovisual Works and photo contest weekend
14:00 – Special mention to the photo contest “YOUR TOWN AS A Lightpainter”

The program schedule ** May change without notice.