first attempt at light painting.

[Shifty.]

Recently bought a new camera and have seen pics done like this on here so thought i'd give it a whirl, bear in mind its my first try and experimenting and yes i know the car is dirty!! Oh and i'm not sure how to put the pics on here so they're big, if anyone wants to have a go/let me know how that'd be great.
Cheers Si

 

[Shifty.]

Anyone know of any good locations to shoot around somerset?

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Good effort for a first try !!

Upload pics to Flickr/bookFace/Photobucket.

I quite like the one with the red waves over the car !

 

[Shifty.]

Done it with a bicycle light, tried to make it look like flames but didn't really work, needs more experimenting, a clean car n maybe a decent location in the back ground, tried putting them on via Facebook and that's the size they came up, might have to create a Flickr account and try that.

 

[Mr Burns]

Good effort. I love light painting!

 

[Shifty.]

Yeah ever since I saw the guys pics on here, taken in a cool graffiti'd tunnel, I've wanted to try it but only recently got a good enough camera, really need to clean the car and have a proper stab at it.

 

[Leeshez]

Very nice indeed.

 

[Chapster5]

How the heck do you do light painting, im assuming you need one of them fancy fan dangled cameras like £500 quid minimum lol

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Shifty - I think you need to be a bit more obvious with your tops of the flames, there's too much of a curve if you see what I mean. Also, you've hosted those pics on CS. When you add an image from FB/Flickr etc, untick the stupid box that makes it an attachment and it'll be full size in line, not those poxy attachments which I hate so much !.

Chappers - You need a camera that will allow the shutter to be open for more than a second

 

[glenn_adam_doble]

good effort for a first go i thought you were going for flames when i first saw it well done

 

[Knuckles]

Ha looks ace! Love the flames

 

[Chapster5]

Shifty - I think you need to be a bit more obvious with your tops of the flames, there's too much of a curve if you see what I mean. Also, you've hosted those pics on CS. When you add an image from FB/Flickr etc, untick the stupid box that makes it an attachment and it'll be full size in line, not those poxy attachments which I hate so much !.

Chappers - You need a camera that will allow the shutter to be open for more than a second

Ohh I have no clue on cameras, I am useless with a digital ive just learnt the macro thingy feature ^_^

Nick

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Well use it and learn something FFS :rasp:

I got my first SLR and had literally zero idea what anything did.

Without wishing to blow my own trumpet, I think I dun alright learnin myself how to use it

 

[Shifty.]

I have a lumix g2 so not a high end camera but not too shabby either, will try and do better flames at some point, was just experimenting with these shots really, all i did to take them was set shutter speed to 60 secs and shine a torch over the car and then used a rear bike light to quickly do the flames, could probably have spent less time painting the car and more time trying to do the flames as i rushed them towards the end of the exposure.
Cheers for all the good comments and feedback tho guys, much appreciated.
Si

 

[Will.]

Nicely done for a first attempt. I keep meaning to go out and do this with my pov spec bridge camera.

 

[Shifty.]

Do it, although you might wanna wait for warmer weather, i tried to have another go yesterday but took one pic and got back in the car!!

 

[Scott™]

Good effort for a first attempt.

 

[Shifty.]

Cheers, it wasn't 'till i took the pics that i realised how dirty the car was which is slightly annoying but for my first attempt I'm pretty chuffed at the results.

 

[Tigger]

Well use it and learn something FFS :rasp:

I got my first SLR and had literally zero idea what anything did.

Without wishing to blow my own trumpet, I think I dun alright learnin myself how to use it

Canon are for inferior people anyway

 

[Shifty.]

Got it!!

 

[Leeshez]

I want my camera back so i can practice. . This is so amazing .

 

[Shifty.]

Cheers as I said these were just experimental shots, need some good weather so I can wash the car and try again.

 

[Emma.]

I went out the other day and had a go myself. Pretty happy with the results

Clio Cup by Emma_Williams, on Flickr

 

[Shifty.]

Is that under street lights, the colour of your car looks good

 

[Eddie.]

Shifty, they're really good.

I personally like the style of light painting, where you can't see the light source, so it appears the car is in complete blackness. Your light trails are nice too.

 

[Emma.]

Is that under street lights, the colour of your car looks good

Yeh under street lights and I "painted" the car with light.

 

[Shifty.]

Cool it's given me an idea for next time too, some of the pics you can see the torch as I must've pointed it towards the camera.

 

[Mr Burns]

Here's a couple I took ages ago...

 

[Shifty.]

Nice I like those pics, really wanna clean my car and take some more

 

[Mr Burns]

Nice I like those pics, really wanna clean my car and take some more

My only advice is to find a nice source of artificial lighting. The first picture was taken in-front of some blue floodlights that were bolted to the ground and faced upwards, perfect for night photos!

You can see the lights in this picture...

Results look good IMO...

 

[Shifty.]

Yeah that is pretty cool I'll ave to try n find a good light source, also want to find a good location, graffiti walls for example.

 

[Mr Burns]

Yeah that is pretty cool I'll ave to try n find a good light source, also want to find a good location, graffiti walls for example.

It's all just fields and water down there isn't it? lol

 

[Shifty.]

Haha yeah n hills, there's a cool place I know of but I've yet to check it out properly.

 

[aucky]

In a nutshell, how do you do this?

I'm guessing its done on slow exposure and then photoshopped onto duplicate photo without the blur of a person running round with a torch?

 

[Mr Burns]

No Photoshop necessary, just a slow exposure. As long as you keep moving the camera won't notice you, it kinda helps if you're wearing dark clothes too.

 

[NFox]

These are awesome! I want a dslr

 

[aucky]

Oh that sounds easy
Just how slow ate we talking here? Just enough time to do the biz and get out?

 

[Mr Burns]

I used a 30sec exposure for those pics.

 

[Shifty.]

Ditto it's real easy, just slow exposure, you'd only show up if you stopped for too long and lit yourself.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Totally depends on the amount of light in the area at the time.

Try 30 seconds. If that's no good, up it (you'll need a remote + bulb mode).

Most important thing is the white balance (go read the Stickies in Photography) !

The Scoob at Two Tree Island at night by evil_giraffes_rule, on Flickr

This was 96 seconds and still too dark IMO.

The following was 32 seconds and just about right:

Further attempts after moving the camera... by evil_giraffes_rule, on Flickr

In my pitch black garage, this was 143sec:

Garage snake by evil_giraffes_rule, on Flickr

You get the idea.

Regarding the remote:

You either want something like this remote on Amazon which is literally a shutter open/closed IR jobby..

or something like this which can be found cheaper on Amazon which plugs in, does single shots if you want but can do multiple exposures etc. too.

Make sure you buy one that will work with your camera ! Those are just examples.

:evil: