Light Painting with Strobe & Gels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-58DMAGkFx0 Nick Carver just cracks me up. After watching this, I was ready to load up the Lexus and drive into...

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-58DMAGkFx0

Nick Carver just cracks me up. After watching this, I was ready to load up the Lexus and drive into Arizona to photograph Cacti. The light painting is really, really interesting.

Jay Pat Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA

Enjoyed parts 1 and 2.
Seen camera gear I had not seen before.
Pat

berchman Loc: South Central PA

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-58DMAGkFx0

Nick Carver just cracks me up. After watching this, I was ready to load up the Lexus and drive into Arizona to photograph Cacti. The light painting is really, really interesting.

I don't consider what he did to be light painting. Here is an example of true light painting:

https://www.haroldrossfineart.com/

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

berchman wrote:

I don't consider what he did to be light painting. Here is an example of true light painting:

Light painting is whatever the Photographer defines it as. I've used penlights to trace the outline of a model in the pitch dark of a mine, used colored jells on strobes to light up abandoned buildings and to highlight a foreground object in the course of a 90 minute star trail shot. The point of the post was to illustrate new creative opportunities.

Harold Ross is doing the exact same thing that I have done and that Nick Carver did. So, how do you feel Ross is different?

berchman Loc: South Central PA

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

Light painting is whatever the Photographer defines it as. I've used penlights to trace the outline of a model in the pitch dark of a mine, used colored jells on strobes to light up abandoned buildings and to highlight a foreground object in the course of a 90 minute star trail shot. The point of the post was to illustrate new creative opportunities.

Harold Ross is doing the exact same thing that I have done and that Nick Carver did. So, how do you feel Ross is different?

It would be necessary to watch a video of Ross doing light painting to see his method. He keeps the light source constantly moving in a manner appropriate to the part of the object that is being painted. Every separate part of a still life is painted separately. For example, a pair of metal framed eyeglasses would have the ear pieces lit separately from the nose bridge. The results look like Renaissance paintings.