Throne Of Light

I haven't done a lot of light painting lately so I decided to get back to doing it.

Once I set about painting with light I realised I was out of practice and what would have taken me 5 seconds earlier took me about 15 seconds. I definitely need more practice.

Anyway I really like this particular chair and I've never done any light painting with it before so I thought I'd give it a shot and see how it turns out.

Just creating the streaks around the chair weren't enough and I had to light up the design on the headrest and the two chair legs as well. I used a home made diffuser for that (a piece of folded paper...doesn't get any simpler than that).

I'd forgotten how much fun light painting actually is :)

Btw if you want to get started here is a light painting tutorial for you to check out. (Just click on "light painting tutorial").
Weather permitting I'm going to try creating some orbs today with some torches (not ideal but it's what I have).

Glorious Chair

A glorious chair? Really? Kinda.

This is the result of my latest light painting endeavour - light painting a chair.

A chair is a pretty common piece of furniture and we use these everyday so I thought it would be nice to look at it in a different way. So I decided to create light trails around it.

It took me around 15 minutes to create one picture. The batteries on my flashlight died out and I nearly broke the bulb. Now the camera I'm using doesn't allow me to use a shutter speed that is slower than 15 seconds and it also doesn't have Bulb mode so I was forced to take multiple pictures and then combine them in later.


Now this is a lot more complicated than it might seem but it is still really really easy. I'm working on a proper tutorial and will hopefully have it up soon. I do have a light painting tutorial up on Youtube which is like an introduction to light painting. There are couple of other light painting tutorials that you could check out. I'm embedding the Light Painting Tutorial below for you to watch and learn.

Here is one of my first attempts. This is also a different angle.

Any questions? Feel free to leave a comment.
In case you are wondering, the flashlight is in proper working condition and I will try to perfect this :D