I started lightpainting quite a few years ago and I remember being obsessed with waving light sticks, wands or any object that emitted light around in the dark and also being quite happy with the results as a novice.
This is a collection of my earlier stuff where I blundered my way through trying to work out how to actually make the shots:
This was my very first model photoshoot approximately 7 years ago and I remember having to pick up my jaw off the floor when this model, whose name I cannot remember, entered the room in lingerie!
Having lightpainted for a while since I shot this, I can see all the mistakes in the RAW file. And back then I was using a crop sensor camera!
More or less at the same time as I shot the first image above, I met another lightpainter, @fadetoblack Between us we learned how, or at least tried, to make the images we could see others were making and trying to keep their techniques secret. It was fun to work out this stuff and some of these techniques I've learned back then still get used today.
This is Tim, posing in a no longer accessible tunnel, "Oldknows" with me waving a fibre optic brush around in the dark:
Tim also introduced me to the wonderful world of net curtain waving in the dark: (Lord only knows what Tim was doing with the net curtains when he realised what could be done with them!)
And finally this is me spinning a home made orb in a gatehouse leading to an ancient monastery, one of the earliest orbs I actually got right:
As usual all of the above were shot in one photographic exposure and are not Photoshop creations which has been the aim right from the start.
About me:
I usually specialise in shooting lightpainting images but occasionally dabble in urbex and artistic model photography. I'm always on the lookout for someone to collaborate with; please don't hesitate to get in touch if you'd like to create art.
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I really love looking at these mate and I love the raw vibe they have. I think the better we get that raw vibe gets lost a bit. Not that I don't like the polished beauties of today though :)
Cheers pal, you're right, that raw vibe, less precise nature about the fibre optic shot above should be a source of ideas too...
Love this set! all of them.
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