Light Painting
Light painting is a technique in photography, that is performed in the dark or night time where photographers introduces different lighting element during a single long exposure. The time of the exposure is around 5 minutes but can be exposed for a few seconds to several of hours. Lighting element can be shown with flashlight, toy that light up and cell phones or anything that emits light. The type of light painting equipments can be any camera that has a ability for long shutter speed. Most Lighting Painting Photographer use Digital SLR camera along with a tripod with a remote shutter release to give them full flexibility with their light painting effort
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ISO means how sensitive the light is when the camera is taking an image. The settings are: 100, 200, 400, 800. The lower the number the lower the sensitive and finer the grain the shot you're taking. Aperture is the hole or and opening where light travels through the camera. For example, if you have the aperture high, then the more light comes through, whereas if the aperture is low then less light will come through. Shutter speed is basically the exposure time. This means that in our light painting, we expose the camera to light for 10 seconds. Sometimes, we have to change the exposure time because we have changed the aperture because it was light/dark.
Man Ray
Man Ray was the first artist to explore the technique of light painting. Man Ray was best known for avant-garde photography. He worked in several different media and thought himself as a painter above all the others. Man Ray’s contribution to light painting photography came in his series “Space Writing”. In 1935 Man Ray set up a camera to produce a self-protrait. He opened the shutter of his camera and used a small penlight to create a series of swirls and lines in the air. Random circles and swirls are all these photographs were thought to be until in 2009, a photographer by the name of Ellen Carey, held a mirror up to the work and discovered the seemingly random light drawing was actually Man Ray’s signature.
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Frank GilbrethIn 1914, Frank Gilbreth and his wife Lillian Moller Gilbreth in creating a series of light-painting images that studied "work simplification" and helped develop new ways to increase employee output and simplify their jobs. By studying the movement of the workers through their movements Gilbreth and his wife could develop new ways to make the work place more efficient.
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Gjon MiliNext on the list of light painters is Gjon Mili. Gjon Mili was born in Albania and came to the United States in 1923. Gjon was trained as an engineer and was a self-taught photographer. In the mid 1930’s Mili, working with Harold Eugene Edgerton from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), pioneered photoflash photography. Gjon used stroboscopic light to capture the motion of everything from dancers to jugglers in a single exposure. His photoflash techniques are still very much used today in light painting photography.
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This video is teaches you how to do light painting. It tells what you need, what you have to do and advance settings.
You will need a digital or a film camera or any other camera that can reset your shutter time, you will also need a tripod. If don't have a tripod, you can look for things that can keep your camera steady for example the table. You will also need a object that gives out light for example a torch or a LED light. And you obviously need the dark. Post production(advance setting), you can use softwares like photoshop to play with it and change the setting and how it looks. You can use these photos as post cards or give it to someone as a gift. |
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Some of the image are not really composed well and some of the image are really composed well, like some of the images are centre and arranged really well. The settings we used, started with F.10, F.8, F.4.5 and F.4 aperture and we used 10 seconds, 8 seconds and 5 seconds. F.10 was to bright so we changed to F.8 but it was still kind of bright, so we changed it to F.4.5. Improvements for the images, we dont really need the flash because the it was to bright but we need it if we want to do a movement image.
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