Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Light Painting

Hey everybody! This week at Photography Club I learned about light painting. Light painting is a style of photography where you use a long exposure and move a light source like an LED or glow-stick within the frame of the picture. By doing this you can “draw” and create amazing light patterns.

Here are some colourful stars and a heart drawn out by some members of the club using an ipod. Right before we close the shutter we fire a flash to capture the person who is drawing. This is called “Rear Curtain Sync/Flash”. This way we don't only get the pattern they drew but also drawer in the same image :)
 




This next picture is a bit eerie... two glow-sticks were used here.



Right as people seemed to be packing up and getting ready to head out a guy came named Dhruva walked in the room saying he heard that photo club was meeting and that he could do some glow poi for us!! I was totally stoked! I've known about poi but never seen it live... just on youtube :P

These next shots are awesome...





Thanks for taking a look. Please feel free to leave comments or remarks.


I almost forgot to do a Star Trek TNG quote for this blog... Here it is:

Gosheven: I really was willing to stay here and die for this.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: I know that. This is just a thing. And things can be replaced. Lives cannot.
                               S3E2

Posted by at

4 comments:

  1. StephMarch 9, 2011 at 7:19 PM

    WOW! All of the photos are amazing, but especially those last ones with all the amazing colors and so many lights at once! Incredible!

    ReplyDelete
  2. JaneMarch 9, 2011 at 11:45 PM

    Jay, again you have treated us to amazing ways of taking pictures. When you mentioned the heart-shaped picture I expected a cliche type of photo. However, when I saw it I was so impressed with its elegance that I chose it to be my favourite of the first kind. And then the glow poi. Never heard of it. But is it ever eye-catching. My favourite for that catagory: the four-leaf clover.

    ReplyDelete
  3. pouriaMarch 13, 2011 at 10:04 PM

    You've done a great job Jason, as well as the painters and/or athletes. Thanks for sharing with us!

    ReplyDelete
  4. HanffMarch 14, 2011 at 10:39 AM

    Radfantasticably awesome.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)