Painting with light
Light painting is a photographic process where exposure are made by moving a hand held light source or the camera. Below are our examples of light painting . Some famous light painters include Frank Gilbreth who made light photographs in 1914. Also there was Man Ray who was painting with light in 1935 and Gjon Mili also in the 1930 and 1930.
Harold Eugene Edgerton
Images we took.
We attempted to make our own photos in school using a stroboscope
i was in a group with Max,Harvey,kai we used a football and experimented with different apertures, lights angles and movements with the football harvey did kick ups and headers .I thought these images looked really good the images were the ball stays in the same area they are more concentrated in to one space and the ball is more blurred and less defined the image looks a bit more frantic and busy .Where as the images where the ball is more spaced out its more defined but i prefer the others as they look less like action shots and more staged . We also took images in the class room with a black screen in the background and just did basic painting with light just doing lines and drawings these images came out slightly over exposed as the light on the background makes the shadows visible and makes the images look worse these were our first attempts however.
i was in a group with Max,Harvey,kai we used a football and experimented with different apertures, lights angles and movements with the football harvey did kick ups and headers .I thought these images looked really good the images were the ball stays in the same area they are more concentrated in to one space and the ball is more blurred and less defined the image looks a bit more frantic and busy .Where as the images where the ball is more spaced out its more defined but i prefer the others as they look less like action shots and more staged . We also took images in the class room with a black screen in the background and just did basic painting with light just doing lines and drawings these images came out slightly over exposed as the light on the background makes the shadows visible and makes the images look worse these were our first attempts however.
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In a group with Max , Harvey , kai. we experimented with the strobe , the flash and other lights. these were our successful images the best one is of harvey and the light painted man coming out of the middle we were inspired by an image we saw which was a lot more detailed than that however I think it being that simple also looks good as the image is less cluttered and busy and you tend to concentrate on the whole image rather than just the light painting in the middle.