#light painting
Amazing Light Painting Project Features a Plasma Screen Used as a “3D Printer”
3D light painting can be done by using a 2D image rather than a single point of light. In the past, we’ve shared creative examples of iPads being used in this way to light paint everything from ghostly figures to creative animations.
The video above, created for the recent launch of McLaren’s new P12 super car, takes this screen-based 3D light painting concept to the next level.
A collaborative effort between Marshmallow Laser Feast and The Found Collective, the video shows a large plasma TV being used instead of a small iPad. By moving the screen back and forth on a fixed track while displaying carefully-planned patterns, the photographers were able to create long-exposure frames that would come together to form an animation.
Every time the screen moved down the track, a single light-painted frame of the animation would be captured. Here’s a sampling of the individual frames:
Here’s how it was done: the creators were initially given the new supercar’s wind tinnel airflow data, which they analyzed to pick out paths for the individual trails of light. Each light-painting photograph was composed of 650 individual frames displayed on the plasma screen as it was moved along by the motion control rig. By capturing the entire 650 frames in one long-exposure photo, the main camera was able to “see’ the whole thing as a single 3D shape.
This process was repeated thousands of times to create all the frames used in the animation seen above. With each of those shots, the main camera — itself mounted to a track — was moved by a few millimeters. The result was the illusion of smooth camera movement as the animation occurs.
The finished film is one that uses photography, animation, and sculpture instead of simple computer-generated trickery. Amazing.
(via Marshmallow Laser Feast via Fstoppers)
The Surreal Light Painting Photography of a Blind Photographer
Sonia Soberats’ journey in photography didn’t start until she couldn’t see the photographs she was producing. Around two decades ago, she lost her eyesight to glaucoma between losing her son to Hodgkin’s disease and her daughter to ovarian cancer. At the turn of the century, Soberats began taking photography lessons in New York City as a form of therapy and self-expression. Her technique of choice? Light painting.
The New York Times writes that Soberats uses her hands to “see” what she is painting into the frame:
[…] in the studio, [Soberats] works in complete darkness, always with the help of a seeing assistant. She arranges her models, using her hands to feel every aspect of the image, instructing her assistant where to place the edges of the frame.
“I feel your face, your hair, then I’ll ask you: ‘Are you light-colored? Or dark? Is your hair blonde or brown or black?’ ” she said. “So with asking and touching, then I’ll get an idea of what I have to work with.”
Ms. Soberats then asks her assistant to open the shutter, and using various light sources, including flashlights and Christmas lights, she darts about the frame like Tinkerbell, illuminating details within the image. The shutter remains open anywhere from two minutes to an hour.
The technique is a slow one: only three or four photographs might result from a back-breaking 90-minute photo shoot.
Soberats has begun showing her work to the world through solo exhibitions — her first one, titled Visión Intransferible, was held in Caracas, Venezuela earlier this year. She’s also a member of the Seeing With Photography Collective, a New York-based group of visually impaired photographers. You can find more of Soberat’s work here, and beautiful photographs by the entire collective here.
(via The New York Times)
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Having fun in the Silence Zone, Durango, México
Practice makes perfect, I have a lot to practice
Testing the tubes
Playing with light
Light Painting Machine
Project from Josh Sheldon showcases his light painting animation set-up, translating scenes created in 3D software Blender that are replicated with robotic controlled camera and LED:
I made this robot to make light painting animations. Each of the animations I made took between 4 and 12 hours to shoot, one frame at a time. Each frame is 1-3 long exposure photographs of the machine performing the light painting.
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“By the Crystal’s Light”
2018
Dan play a bit in the dark with Kozy’s sculptures for new new exhibition, “Growing Into Roots”, before we delivered them to GR2 Gallery. Super fun to imagine the world her bunny primitive sculptures live in - their social structures, their recreation, their rituals, all the oddities, as well as parallels to our own world.
I think we have some similar ideas about the world the characters inhabit, and what they are like, but we don’t discuss it between us too much - the sculptures just exist in our own personal worlds, and we expect each viewer of the exhibition will fill out their own version of the bunny primitive world.
Some of these one-of-a-kind, hand built ceramic sculptures are still available for purchase HERE on Giant Robot’s web store.
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LIGHT PAINTING - Painted Neon Lights in Landscapes
Without computer editing, photographer David Gilliver captures images of an amazing world, where multicolored lights spread and twirl in the middle of peaceful nocturnal landscapes. By using a technique of long exposure and moving light sources, the artist draws surreal luminescent installations that exist in his stunning photographs only. l Via Fubiz&Lense.
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Spruce Bog lit by a Bic lighter at 2am- Algonquin Provincial Park - Ontario, Canada
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