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Light Painting 101

Postby Photopotamus on Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:32 pm

All,

Just a quick post for your review & critique... These are "as shot" from the light painting outing this evening!

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Curious to see what the others got...
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby Geoff on Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:37 pm

Nice sharp shots, well lit indeed.
I'd love to know more about the lighting setup or how you achieved these great results. Obviously you told the car to stay very very still :D :lol:
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby gstark on Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:39 pm

Lovely.

And thanx, everyone, for coming, and for helping to make the night the success that I believe it was.

Glen, great to see you up and about again too.

The car, btw, was a '66, 289.
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby aim54x on Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:04 am

Nice shots...but that looks strangely like one of my shots:
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby surenj on Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:01 am

What the... I got a similar shot! [nice shots by the way boyz :mrgreen: ]

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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby dviv on Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:03 pm

Snap!

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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby Wink on Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:27 pm

This type of photo is my next experiment.

Did you use a softbox or some sort of diffusion for the light? If so what did you use?
I've brought a cheap 128 LED light to try out. Hopefully it does the job.
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby aim54x on Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:56 pm

We had a few softboxes and were using a variety of different light sources (High powered LED torch, SB-600 flash, LED lamp).
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby chasem on Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:23 pm

i Realy want to lern how to do this. does anyone have a GOOD tutorial. i can onyl find tutorials with very very little info.
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby biggerry on Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:29 pm

softbox or some sort of diffusion for the light?


yeah you definitely need something to diffuse the light with - probably a homemade number would suffice, however Servaas has some good softboxes at some great prices, unfortunately he is out of stock until the end of september. Dragon image in sydney have them also but are more expensive.


http://servaas.com.au/portable-photographic-flash-soft-box-diffuser-50x50cm-p-137.html

does anyone have a GOOD tutorial.


probably just missed the best tute...

http://www.dslrusers.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=37005

but can see the results here (typically a softbox 60cmx60cm with LED):

http://www.dslrusers.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=37207

or similar but on a plane here (60cmx60cm softbox and SB-600):

http://www.dslrusers.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=37100

Realistically it is not that hard, a decent LED torch and softbox and your away. Some trial and error and you will quickly work out what works for you and your gear, try on your car or similar.
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby chasem on Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:03 pm

anyone want to do i tute in brisbane? i would be interested
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby Wink on Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:02 pm

Thanks for the info Biggerry! :D
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby surenj on Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:46 pm

I think Gerry has said it all.

I would strongly recommend a way of getting BULB from your camera. Gives you heaps of time to muck around rather than be limited by 30 seconds.
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby Wink on Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:00 pm

Thanks for the tip.
My 450D has a bulb mode.
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby muzz on Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:50 pm

Brent Pearson is a Sydney photographer and has some tutorials on light painting on his blog site here, or you can buy his ebook (a great intro to light painting generally, with a focus on land/seascape light painting) here. He is looking for expressions of interest in running a night photography course at the moment - details on his blog here.
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby surenj on Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:09 pm

Wink wrote:My 450D has a bulb mode.


Wink, as long as you have a remote so you can actually use it. :wink:
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby chasem on Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:13 pm

muzz wrote:Brent Pearson is a Sydney photographer and has some tutorials on light painting on his blog site here, or you can buy his ebook (a great intro to light painting generally, with a focus on land/seascape light painting) here. He is looking for expressions of interest in running a night photography course at the moment - details on his blog here.


awesome going to buy the e-book now!

on second thoughts does he have a hard copy?
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby Wink on Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:37 pm

surenj wrote:
Wink wrote:My 450D has a bulb mode.


Wink, as long as you have a remote so you can actually use it. :wink:

Yep. :D

I'll check this ebook out.
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby zafra52 on Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:54 pm

Now, guys that was not nice...not nice at all!
You made me think someone had pinched
the pic and taken the credit for it. :oops:
I was expecting Gary reaction...
Well, it looks like a very productive and enjoyable
photoshoot .
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby gstark on Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:58 pm

zafra52 wrote:I was expecting Gary reaction...


My reaction was made n the evening of the shoot, when I encouraged everyone to post their similar images into this one thread.

:twisted:
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby Photopotamus on Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:10 am

Wink wrote:My 450D has a bulb mode.

Yep, mine too! :cheers:

surenj wrote:Wink, as long as you have a remote so you can actually use it. :wink:


You're welcome Surenj! :lol:
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby Wink on Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:43 am

I brought the ebook.
Lots of useful tips in there. :D
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Re: Light Painting 101

Postby surenj on Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:04 pm

Photopotamus wrote:
surenj wrote:Wink, as long as you have a remote so you can actually use it. :wink:

You're welcome Surenj! :lol:


Thanks for the remote Photopotamus! :mrgreen:
I had left mine in a coat pocket....found it eventually. :chook:
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