Guess what it is....

**Barefoot** · 03-01-2009, 01:18 PM

You're both on the right track, but it does have a "proper" name. A little work with google and the guesses offered so far may give me what I'm looking for. If not, I'll give it to Light Painting.

**Iguanasan** · 03-01-2009, 03:48 PM

It looks like a moire screen saver to me.

**Ben H** · 03-01-2009, 04:03 PM

Laser pointer?

**Greg_Nuspel** · 03-01-2009, 05:06 PM

Lissajous figures

**Barefoot** · 03-01-2009, 05:30 PM

Nope, nope, and nope. Actually, I don’t think a laser pointer would work for one of these. I probably made a poor choice by putting one up. I found them by accident and my attempt at duplicating the technique is poor. What I’m looking for is the name given to these types of images. Light Painting is the closest yet because it does involve painting with light. They seem to have a large following as there are many web pages dedicated to showing them.

An image of a mountain scene is a landscape, one of a beautiful woman in a studio is a portrait, and painting with light in this fashion is a ???.

After two more incorrect guesses, I’m giving it to EJC for being the closest first, although Greg is awful close and thinking along the right lines by giving the practice an actual name.

**BlueX** · 03-01-2009, 05:44 PM

Kinetic photography?

**Barefoot** · 03-01-2009, 06:19 PM

Maybe we should let Greg have this one and move on to something different. It is Light Painting as EJC guessed, but more specifically it’s an image of frequency. Not that of vibrations as Greg suggested, but the frequency of the motion of a pendulum.

They’re called Physiograms. People create them in different ways, but almost all involve the use of a very small flashlight (mine was a L.E.D. keychain light) suspended from a ceiling with string in a dark room and then setting the light in a swinging motion above the upward pointing camera set to bulb or at least a 30 second exposure. They have about as much value as a “Camera Toss”, but you’re less likely to destroy your expensive DSLR in the process.

They are a lot of fun to cerate, particularly when the weather isn’t conducive to outdoor photography. (Or, if you’re just bored stiff!)

http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/physiogram

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&e...iogram&spell=1

Greg, you're it!