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That's great, Bruce! I, too, am hoping you'll share your technique. Did you draw the flower separately with a flashlight and photoshop it on anoter image?

Very imaginative!
Todd
brucelynn said:
Follow the "Light Paintings" link on my website for more of these
light paintings. A different type of light painting can be found
on the "Barn Light" section of my website.

-Bru

http://www.brucelynn.com
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You can do this in one shot. Use a long a long shutter time and experiment with apperture settings to get it right so that unless you stand still for more then a second and a half, you won't show in your final image. Your flashlight will however since it gives of a lot more light.

So say you have a ten second exposure: stay still and take your pose for about three or four seconds and use one hand to start drawing with your flashlight.

With the remaining seconds, make sure you are always moving around, but continue drawing with your flashlight.
Play with the timings until you get a good shot. It's fun to do.
DolleBrouwer said:
That's great, Bruce! I, too, am hoping you'll share your
technique. Did you draw the flower separately with a flashlight
and photoshop it on anoter image?

Very imaginative!
Todd
brucelynn said:
Follow the "Light Paintings" link on my website for more of these
light paintings. A different type of light painting can be found
on the "Barn Light" section of my website.

-Bru

http://www.brucelynn.com
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I set the D70 to manual mode, F7.1, "BULB" exposure (to get more than 30 seconds) Kit Lens. I triggered the remote and stood there as my friend Scott (MS Hove) painted the flowers. Then I triggered the remote again to stop.

-Bru

http://www.brucelynn.com
beaucamera said:
brucelynn said:


Follow the "Light Paintings" link on my website for more of these
light paintings. A different type of light painting can be found
on the "Barn Light" section of my website.

-Bru

http://www.brucelynn.com
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Wonderfull.
This is real art.

It does remind of some of the same stuff I did in 15 years ago with black/white film which I developed myself, to keep is cheap (I was a student then)

It let me experiment with these things, but most of the time I painted words or letters and did it myself. Nothing as beautiful as yours btw.

I also experimented with double exposures. Though my cheap SLR wasn't able to do real double exposeres, I used bulb-setting and let somebody flash by hand two times with interval.
In this interval I changed settings. These give spooky results.

Once I did this with the first shot lying down and the other while sitting up on a bed. It looks like I left my own body.

Since a few months I own a D70 (upgrade from P&S) and I'm able to pick these kind of tricks up again. How wonderfull...!!!!

Thanks for sharing this picture and reminding me of the good ol'days.

grt,
Alex
Anand Sankaran said:
You are setting a new path for yourself, glad to see you go places
not many have gone before.

--
http://clix.smugmug.com
http://clixclix.blogspot.com
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Great work!

I've also done this before, but never with such precision as yours is. What kind of a light did you use to make the lines so fine? And your friend must be very good artistically if he could make the drawing that good without being able to see where you've already "marked"..

That was my problem, keeping everything spaced well without having stray lines everywhere..

Once again great work and I'd love to have the ability to have the precision you have in this picture.

-Sam

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It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion in the ocean...
 
nice work Bruce, I too would like to know what kind of light you guys used for this.
samashley said:
Great work!
I've also done this before, but never with such precision as yours
is. What kind of a light did you use to make the lines so fine? And
your friend must be very good artistically if he could make the
drawing that good without being able to see where you've already
"marked"..
That was my problem, keeping everything spaced well without having
stray lines everywhere..

Once again great work and I'd love to have the ability to have the
precision you have in this picture.

-Sam

--
It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion in the ocean...
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Cheers
macue

 
mario cueva said:
samashley said:
Great work!
I've also done this before, but never with such precision as yours
is. What kind of a light did you use to make the lines so fine? And
your friend must be very good artistically if he could make the
drawing that good without being able to see where you've already
"marked"..
That was my problem, keeping everything spaced well without having
stray lines everywhere..

Once again great work and I'd love to have the ability to have the
precision you have in this picture.

-Sam

--
It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion in the ocean...
Click to expand...
--
Cheers
macue

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I've seen many attempts at light drawing - non to match this though - the idea, execution and picture thoroughly excellent.

--
Photography - bah humbug
means I have to get up and do things and a 170-500 is heavy
 
Thanks Sam. My "Tweaks" section is a representation of my earliest attempts at digital art, before I got into more "pure" digital photography (where you reinforce the image and not twist it into something altogether different). All of those images started as 2.5 mp jpegs from my Olympus C2500L camera. I made about 1500 of them from 1999 to 2003. I very rarely make them anymore.

I've really enjoyed this "light painting" kick I've been on as it is letting me make artistic images again that are not typical photography.

-Bru
samashley said:
samashley said:
http://www.brucelynn.com
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Hey again,
I just checked out your website; your "tweaks" section is
amazing... You're really talented!

-Sam
--
It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion in the ocean...
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We look forward to seeing what you come up with on your D70 Alex!

-Bru

http://www.brucelynn.com
accw said:
It does remind of some of the same stuff I did in 15 years ago with
black/white film which I developed myself, to keep is cheap (I was
a student then)
It let me experiment with these things, but most of the time I
painted words or letters and did it myself. Nothing as beautiful as
yours btw.

I also experimented with double exposures. Though my cheap SLR
wasn't able to do real double exposeres, I used bulb-setting and
let somebody flash by hand two times with interval.
In this interval I changed settings. These give spooky results.
Once I did this with the first shot lying down and the other while
sitting up on a bed. It looks like I left my own body.

Since a few months I own a D70 (upgrade from P&S) and I'm able to
pick these kind of tricks up again. How wonderfull...!!!!

Thanks for sharing this picture and reminding me of the good ol'days.

grt,
Alex
Anand Sankaran said:
You are setting a new path for yourself, glad to see you go places
not many have gone before.

--
http://clix.smugmug.com
http://clixclix.blogspot.com
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
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