Light Painting
What is light painting?
photography comes from the Greek words phos ("light") and graphis ("stylus" or "paintbrush") together they mean 'Drawing with light'. Light painting is a photographic technique usually performed at night or in a dark area where a photographer introduces different lighting elements during a single long exposure photograph. Lighting elements can be introduced directly or indirectly using flashlights, light up toys, mobile phones or anything that emits light. The type of equipments required for light painting can include any camera that that has the ability fro longer shutter speeds. Most light painting photographers use a Digital SLR along with a tripod and a remote shutter release to give them the full flexibility with their light painting efforts. |
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What is ISO?
Iso measures the sensitivity of the images sensor-the lower the number the less sensitive your camera is to light and finer the grain. |
What is the Shutter Speed?
shutter speed is the amount of time that the shutter is open. In digital photography shutter speed is the length of time that your image sensor 'sees' the scene you're trying to capture |
What is Aperture?
The aperture is the opening in the lens. when you press the shutter release button of your camera a hole opens up that allows your camera image sensor to catch a glimpse of the scene you are trying to capture. The higher you set the aperture the more light gets in and the lower you set the aperture the less light gets in. |
John Hesketh: Light Painting Photography, 1985
In 1985 artist John Hesketh took hid camera in to his backyard and began to work on his fiver ever light painting series 'Homelife'. What he focused on the most was objects in his everyday home life. John says "Before I was working with this, I was interested in how black and white records of red, green and blue made a full colour image. While an image was separated I would draw, paint, scratch each black and white records before reassembling them on colour film using the RGB filters. Making colours using black crayon or paint was intense, educational, but vey time consuming, 3 to 6 months an image. I also felt graphic instead of photographic. One night I took the camera and filters that I had been using to reassemble my drawings onto film, outside into my backyard and pointed it at a statue and cactus." John uses colour filter in his work where he will separate on colour from entering into the camera while he is light painting. Hesketh lives in Anaheim California and continues to explore his light painting process with his latest light painting series 'Los Angeles'. |
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Gjon Mili: Light Painting Photography 1930-1940
Gjon Mili was born on November 28 190. He was an Albanian-American photographer best known for his work published in 'LIFE' which he photographed artists such as Pablo Picasso. Mili spent his childhood in Romania attending Gheorghe Lanzar National College in Bucharest, after which he moved to the United States in 1923. Gjon used stroboscopic light to capture the motion of everything from dancers to jugglers. In 1939 he got a job as a freelance photographer for 'LIFE'. His job took him all over the world where he photographed celebrities and artists, sports events, concerts, sculptures and architecture. Mili also used his technique to study the motion of dancers musicians and figure skaters |
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Frank Gilbreth: Light Painting Photography 1914
Frank Gilbreth was born in Fairfield, Maine in 1868. He had no formal education beyond high school. At the age of 3 his father died and after his death the family moved to Boston, Massachusetts. After high school, he became a bricklayer apprentice and then became a building contractor and finally a management engineer. He eventually became a occasional lecturer at Purdue University. He married Lillian Evelyn Moller on October 19 1904, they had 12 children. In the year 1914 Frank and Lillian Gilbreth used small lights and the open shutter of a camera to track the movement of the manufacturing and clerical workers to create the light photography images. The Gilbreth's did not create the images with the intention of fame instead they created the images because they were studying what they call " work simplification ". The Gilbreth's were working on the developing ways to increase employee output and simplify their jobs |
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Video Review
I really like this video because it gives you a brief on what light painting is and what to do. It gives you a list of what you would need. It also gives you tips to improve your light painting " You can also use coloured balloons to change the colour of your light". This video also gives you examples of light paintings, so you can see which one you like and then try it out yourself. |
1st Light Painting
settings
throughout the images we took in our groups the aperture stayed the same as F.4.0 as it was the most affective. We set the aperture at F.4.0 because It let the right amount of light in, not too much not too less. we set the capture time fro 10 seconds meaning that we had 10 seconds to draw with the light |
Improvements
for next time we could improve by, when drawing whit the light point the light directly at the camera, so the camera can pick up the light. another thing that we can improve on is too change the settings around so we can experiment and see what setting works the best for the image |
Compositions
In all of our photos we set the focus in the centre of the image because if we moved the focus too to the right or left you would be able to see the white wall which would reflect the light into the camera making the image not work. |