Our House - Light Painted

[Mad Aussie]

Had a quick go at light painting again last night before bed. This is our house ...

[casil403]

Nice! This is a really cool medium MA! It looks are you are enjoying exploring it also.

[kat]

Very cool. I got a second here..so I can actually comment.

Is that HDR also with some blur?

[Marko]

Digging the play MA

[Bambi]

the effect of this is very very cool. When it gets warmer outside I will try it.

[Mad Aussie]

Thanks everyone. It is a bit of fun.

Very cool. I got a second here..so I can actually comment.

Is that HDR also with some blur?

No Kat ... this isn't HDR. This is Light Painting which I used for some of my 'Wave Sculture' shots as well. Raiven asked me to explain in another thread (my playground thread) so here's what I told her ...

I've done these before but rarely and want to take it up a level now.

There are various techniques in light painting ... you might remember my bear shots ...



These were a type of light painting where I set the camera on a long exposure and outlined the bear with some small led bike lights I have to create that image.


Then there was this one from my visit to Chantelle ...



This one is the same type of Light Painting I did in those shots above.

The technique here is to use a torch or similar ( I used a tiny LED torch) to paint in the rocks in the foreground which would otherwise have been too dark. This one was a single exposure.

The 3 I mentioned in the first post in this thread however are several exposures. I took several long exposures (30 secs each at high f-stops to create the star bursts on the lamps) and then in each shot I light painted with a strong LED night riding bike light different parts of the structures. No flash was used in the taking of these photos, and no small animals were hurt or abused.
When I got them home I then blended several of the shots together to create those photos.

I've been inspired by a guy whose work was included in the latest edition of the Australian Institute of professional Photographers (AIPP) magazine, of which I'm a member. This guy Brent Pearson does amazing work with his specific lighting setup and has an e-mag you can subscribe to (only US$20) in order to learn his technique. I will do this soon.
Have a look at his work on Flickr and you'll see why I'm so impressed with this stuff ... and how much I have to learn yet!!!

I'm not interested so much in his fancy pants out this world lighting shots ... mainly the night landscape stuff here Light Painting - a set on Flickr[/QUOTE]

[Mad Aussie]

Oh ... and yes ... I added a blur to this one.

[crystalb]

Very nice

[Mad Aussie]

Thanks Crystal

[F8&Bthere]

Nice, MA! Did you run around in a black ninja suit like some of the other light painting enthusiasts do, or were you able to stay out of the frame altogether?