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I had a great time testing out my light stencil last night. Spent 3 hours trying different things out. This is one single exposure SOOC minus a slight white balance adjustment and crop. 🔦 #stimulightthenight
I finally got the chance to test out my new light blade from Dave Thompson. I had a great time trying out the excellent light painting orb technique from Tom Hill. One exposure: F13 for the orb, F3.5 for the EL wire and stars. Excited to continue experimenting with this tool! 🔦
A beautifully clear evening in Lutsen, Minnesota. After a late night of fun it was around 3:30 a.m. when we realized how clear the sky was. Dan and I went outside and set up four cameras to capture star trails, then went inside and hit the hay. We woke up in the morning and grabbed our cameras. Love how the cameras can take the insane cold with no problem. It was about 13 degrees F when we were setting these up.
This shot took several repeated attempts as most double exposures do. Each shot took around 5 minutes to complete. First, I exposed the trees and added the technicolor branches, then I put the lens cap on, brought my camera inside, adjusted the focus and exposed the tree light stencil. 🔦
It's been a while since I did a wool spin. This spot was just asking to have some steel spun so I made a run to the hardware store and stocked up on that 0000! I came here to try to use a new tool I had created to keep my woolspins looking more clean and consistent but my tool ultimately failed after starting on fire... lol back to the drawing board! After a few shots I decided the walls of the bridge needed to be illuminated so I lit them up with my flashlight then did the 3 spins.
It was a rainy weekend so I did some indoor light painting. Can you guess what I used to create this silhouette?
Finally got to try a Tacky Mask at the Tacky Shack! It was great to collaborate in the creation of a mask. More epic shots to come tonight!
In honor of National Grouch Day, here is a light painting of Oscar. I caught him hanging out by some of the trash cans on Sesame Street.
Grabbed this Milky Way shot last weekend during a Saturday night hike on quiet country roads. The street light was barely illuminated so 30 seconds at f3.5, ISO 3200 exposed it nicely! 🔦
Shot this photo five years ago, today! Good times experimenting with a new spirograph wheel and some corrugated tubes in a construction site.
Dan decided to do things a little differently for this shot. He went back to his roots, sketched out a stencil and worked some light painting magic!
Watch our most recent episode of The Light Painting Show to see more of how Dan created this image: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaI3fj4iHi0
This double exposure shot was created using the lens cap method with my manual Rokinon fisheye lens. First I drew out the logo in a dark room at f22 using a secret method for accuracy, then I put the lens cap on, moved outside to the backyard, opened the aperture up to f3.5 and let the stars burn in for about 30 seconds. It took several attempts to get to this shot. Minimal post processing - saturation, clarity, brightness and a small amount of cloning to remove reflections next to the logo.
We are proud to be a part of the first light painting Guinness World Records title! Last summer, Johnny traveled to Virginia with eleven other light painters from all over the country. The group met to attempt setting a Guinness World Record for most light painted orbs in a photo. This past week, we received the official word that we GOT THE RECORD TITLE - 200 ORBS! Check out 200orbs.com!" for more info and an awesome BTS video.
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” -Og Mandino
Missing the bright northern night sky this evening. I put together this composite image from several shots taken during a star trail time-lapse I shot in Minnesota this past February.
Had a great time last weekend experimenting with projecting images on the tunnel walls during a long exposure.
Wool spins have been shot to death by us light painters so we decided to change it up a little with some colored gels.
I tried to capture Gareth's colorful style in this double exposure light painting. Rest in Peace, brother in light.
This was a really fun and really time-consuming shot. It took Dan and I about 2 hours of trial and error with our very patient model, Jackie. When I had the initial idea, I drew out a sketch and explained it to Dan. We thought it would be simple, but after several initial failed attempts we began to lose hope. We fought through the urge to give up and after a lot of repeated attempts things started to come together and we brought the idea to fruition. 🔦
We decided to step it up a notch (no pun intended) and have him shoot a glowing arrow through a steel wool spin ;). He didn’t disappoint. This shot was done entirely with one exposure (the magic of light painting).
To create this shot I hung this old film reel from a bar held up by two light stands. I attempted to hang it by thread but that instantly snapped when the weight was put on. I switched to something a bit stronger with some thin copper wire. I then spun wool from both sides to create the crosshatching wool lines. I used a 50mm lens to create some nice thick lines in the background. I did some very minimal editing to completely remove the wires from the final image. I probably confused my neighbors with all the sparks flying around in the backyard, but it was pretty fun. 😂
Always watching... Digital double exposure using the lens cap method. First exposed the image of the Great Seal from a U.S. one dollar bill, then letting a couple phyisograms expose. Straight out of the camera minus the watermark.
I decided to shoot this vintage Ricoh camera the other night when I found it in a box in the basement. I was given this camera a few years ago and forgot I had it. It’s a pretty cool-looking film camera from the 1980s. I wanted to give it a nice dual-color lighting so I grabbed my Lume Cubes and got to work!
I used a Lume Cube on each side with a third strobe behind the camera to give the camera a nice edge light. I put a red gel on the left Lume Cube and a yellow gel on the right, the colors came out more as green and pink so it still worked out as a nice complementary color scheme. I set the Lume Cubes to optical mode so they would trigger when I fired the rear flash. It worked great. Then I added a little extra light movement behind the camera to finish it off.
This is a focus-stacked, composite shot of three frames. I did this so I could have a crisp focus on each film roll and the camera.
Let me know what you think and if you have suggestions on how I could improve my product photography. 🔦
We created this photo with a flashlight as an outside light source along with a bit of fridge light and overhead light for effect. What this means is that the pose Jackie is holding would need to be held for at least 30 seconds. It is pretty difficult to make things float in the air for that period of time. So.. we cheated.. Head over to our blog to find out more about how we created this image. stimulightthenight.com/breaking-down-the-shot-floating-co...
Had a great time last weekend experimenting with projecting images on the tunnel walls during a long exposure.
Caught this star trail while in beautiful Wyoming! Unfortunately the moon was full and drowned out a lot of the stars, but it also did illuminate the foreground nicely. I took 203 photos, but had to toss about 75 of them due to cloud coverage.
Settings
Shutter Speed: 30 seconds
Aperture: F5
ISO: 2500
Focal Length: 18
Gotta Catch ‘Em All! 👾 What is your favorite Pokémon?
I had a fun time taking this photo. 📷 I’ve wanted to light paint my old Game Boy Color for a while now and I finally made it happen. 🔦
Picture this, it’s Friday night, I am alone in the garage with the lights off and windows covered. I am crouched on the ground behind a tripod focusing my camera at a Game Boy on the workbench with 8-bit Pokémon theme music blasting from its tiny speaker. Sounds pretty awesome, huh? Well it was!
To create this photo, I started by holding my flashlight aimed at the Game Boy screen (since it has no back light), I watched the many different Pokemon slide to the center, pause, and slide away. If one caught my eye, I would open the shutter and expose the screen with the flashlight for a few seconds, then light up the rest of the Game Boy. After that, I used a light-up RC car to add the light streams behind the Game Boy. I took nearly 30 shots and here is my favorite.
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I got this Game Boy for Christmas in 1998 and I received Pokémon Blue shortly after. I was obsessed with the game and still am today, just in a different format. :)
I shot this photo to commemorate my hunting trip last month. I also filmed the latest episode of "The Light Painting Show" while out there, be sure to check it out on our YouTube or Facebook page!
The Minnesota stars were quite stimulighted the other night. We shot some fun photos which will be up soon!
single exposure using the lens cap method. First I used red and green lights to illuminate the light bulb, then I adjusted my lens and illuminated the storm trooper action figure.
"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived."
—Henry David Thoreau
We had a fun time shooting these star trails up in Lutsen, MN. Lake Superior was noisy just 25 feet behind me as I lined up Polaris with the cabin.
Shot this a few months ago on a canoe trip at Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota. I knew we'd be camping in a national park so I preloaded an image of the NPS logo onto my Magilight and brought it with. We had an awesome little island campsite. One of the evenings, just after dark, I got the itch to do some light painting. I went over to a spot on the edge of the lake where I had spotted a few flat rocks close to the surface and set up the camera. I had a fun time standing in the chilly waters using the Magilight to add several different images to the landscape.
Had a good time spending the last few days in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina. I took these star trails through the trees two nights ago outside the awesome cabin we stayed in. This is 100 stacked photos.
I shot this photo last night for the fourth day of the black and white photo challenge. Thanks Chris Bauer for the nomination! Read the story behind the shot!