Practically anything that emits or modifies light can be considered a light painting photography tool and can be used to create a photograph, the following list are just some of the more common tools. Please search the blog and tutorial pages for other tools that may not be listed here and for creative uses for the ones that are listed below. Here is a list of some of the essential Light Painting Gear that we have tested and can recommend:Ĭoast HP7: 530 Lumens this a quality built reliable light with smooth flood to spot function. Soonfire DS30: 1050 Lumens for 40 bucks you can’t beat this light.
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Nitecore SRT7: A full function light with dimmable 0.5 to 1000 Lumens and Strobe. Head Lamp: COAST HL27: A good headlamp is a must have when Light Painting.Īdhesive Backed Gels: This is a must have in every light painters bag. These gels offer endless colorful possibilities! Rosco Swatch Book: These don’t stick, but there are literally hundreds of different colors in this book. Gaffers Tape: Black tape that won’t leave behind a sticky residue.īlack Wrap (Cinefoil): A thicker and black version of aluminum foil.Light painting has been around for almost 130 years and doesn’t require any of the normal clean up from traditional painting. This art form has begun to resurface as the digital age becomes more popular. A new product, the Pixelstick , is a programmable LED “paintbrush” designed specially for this process. It creates simple single colour lines, complex rainbow coloured graphics, or photo-realistic faces and objects. LED lights lead the way in making light painting easy, versatile and precise. Let us back up for a minute to understand what light painting means across the ages. Ultimately it has revolved around using a source of light to create lines of an image while taking a long exposure shot with a camera.
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This involves a lot of trial and error as the light is manipulated to create the intended impact. As it applies to our current world, we have replaced the bulb, match, flashlight, or sparkler with our tiny light emitting diodes (LED) technology. We cover the operation and potential of the LED Pixelstick below. Light painting is accomplished in one of two ways. Primarily an artist uses a hand-held light source to draw an image in the air while a photographer co-part captures the scene. The second and alternative way melds artist and photographer. The creator moves the camera instead to generate an abstract image. This requires a steady hand for the long exposure shot making this technique more difficult. In either method the night sky is often used as the canvas. The Pixelstick is a linear bar of 200 RGB LEDs. The stick has a SD card slot to upload a bitmap image file (BMP) for expression.
Using bitmaps, the programming allows the user to create very fine detail since jumping activation of the LEDs is facilitated. However, the ‘screen’ becomes non-existent as the black aluminum casing and the operator disappear into the background. The small size and programmable nature of LEDs allows the freedom to change spatial location and colour with little to no restriction.
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