My absolute favourite form of light painting, and something I'd be doing this winter if the ground wasn't so waterlogged, is blue hour lightpainting in the landscape.
For this shot, taken in the Peak District, I waited until 40 mins or so after sunset and then used an acrylic rod attached to a coloured torch to draw this complex hand drawn design.
All the other illumination is just the natural afterglow of sunset over a 5 minute exposure or so.
For more of this stuff, check out @lightpaintersunited for some visual goodness
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I never understood the process for these light paintings. Do you go out and wave the light around once the tripod and camera are setup?
That's pretty much a perfect description 😁
Basically, you put the camera on a tripod. Put into bulb mode and set off the exposure. Then wave anything that lights up in front of the camera. As long as you don't get between the camera and the light and you don't shine too much light on yourself, you won't show up in shot.
The tricky bit is drawing in the dark as you can't see what you've already done, so it ends up being about muscle memory and good spatial awareness
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Aha that's how you do it. The acrylic pole helps keep you out of the frame.
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