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LIGHT PAINITING PORTRAITS

The most important thing with light painting portraits is that you always make sure to portray the personality of the model and not focus too much on the particular light painting technique. Especially with portraits, less is often more. Too many traces of light around the model usually distract from the actual portrait.

Das Wichtigste bei Light Painting Portraits ist, dass man immer darauf achtet die Pers枚nlichkeit des Models darzustellen und sich nicht zusehr auf die besondere Light Painting Technik fokussiert. Gerade bei Portraits ist oft weniger mehr. Zu viele Lichtspuren um das Model herum lenken meist vom eigentlichen Portrait ab.

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馃摲 Nikon D750 - Meyer Optik G枚rlitz 32/2 - f8 - ISO 1600 - 0,5 seconds - Model: Emily

Here you can see the Light Painting Tool, which I use for most of the pictures. The bundle of black glass fibres, illuminated by a light blue Convoy S2+ was the only light source here.

Hier sieht man das Light Painting Tool, welches ich f眉r die meisten Bilder verwende im Bild. Das B眉ndel schwarzer Glasfasern, beleuchtet von einer hellblauen Convoy S2+ war hier die einzige Lichtquelle.

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馃摲 Nikon D750 - Meyer Optik G枚rlitz 32/2 - f8 - ISO 50 - 15 seconds - Model: Emily

Here I have attached a prism in front of the lens. I illuminated our model with a scanner.

Hier habe ich vor dem Objektiv ein Prisma befestigt. Unser Model habe ich mit einem Scanner eingleuchtet.

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馃摲 Nikon D750 - Meyer Optik G枚rlitz 32/2 - f8 - ISO 50 - 29 seconds - Model: Emily

After the first pictures had worked so well because our model Emily had held still well, we shifted up a gear here. I lit Emily up a total of three times. She turned her head perfectly into the right position.

Nachdem die ersten Bilder so gut funktioniert hatten weil unser Model Emily gut stillgehalten hatte haben wir hier noch einen Gang h枚her geschaltet. Ich habe Emily insgesamt dreimal eingeleuchtet. Sie hat hier perfekt den Kopf in die jeweils richtige Position gedreht.

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馃摲 Nikon D750 - Meyer Optik G枚rlitz 32/2 - f8 - ISO 100 - 58 seconds - Models: Theresa & Eric

Here, the two siblings held the fibre optic tool in their hands first and I started the exposure. After a few seconds I covered the lens and took the tool away. In the second step, I painted them both with a second fibre optic tool in a different colour.

Hier haben die beiden Geschwister zuerst das Glasfaser Tool in den H盲nden gehalten und ich habe die Belichtung gestartet. Nach einigen Sekunden habe ich das Objektiv abgedeckt und das Tool weggenommen. Im zweiten Schritt habe ich beide mit einem zweiten Glasfaser Tool mit anderer Farbe angemalt.

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Here you can see some of our fibre optic tools again. Mostly we use the black ones. These only light up at the ends. With the white and the coloured ones, there are larger traces of light. The coloured ones glow in the colour of their fibres when you shine a white torch on them. If you shine a coloured torch on them, the ends of the fibres shine in the colour of the light. This can be seen clearly in the picture. The red fibres glow green at the ends and the green ones glow blue.

Hier sieht man nochmal einige unserer Glasfaser Tools. Meist benutzen wir die schwarzen. Diese leuchten nur an den Enden. Bei den wei脽en und den farbigen entstehen gr枚脽ere Lichtspuren. Die farbigen leuchten in der Farbe ihrer Fasern wenn man sie mit einer wei脽en Taschenlampe beleuchtet. Wenn man sie mit einer farbigen Taschenlampe beleuchtet leuchten die Enden der Fasern in der Farbe des Lichts. Im Bild ist das gut zu sehen. Die roten Fasern leuchten an den Enden gr眉n und die gr眉nen leuchten blau.

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WHAT IS LIGHT PAINTING?

Light painting is a unique form of art. The darkness is illuminate by the artist with diverse light sources and light traces are paint into the picture with various light tools. Various techniques are use, such as camera rotation or other movements of the camera during the exposure. The creative possibilities are almost unlimited. All the pictures were taken during one single exposure. Apart from denoising, sharpening, cutting and possibly adjusting the white balance, the pictures are not processed on the computer.

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LICHTKUNSTFOTO

If you like my art visit www.lichtkunstfoto.de for more Light Art Photography and informations about Light Painting. Join me on Flickr Twitter

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For more great Light Art Photography, Light Painting and inspiration check these light painters: marlasinger666@marlasinger666 fadetoblack@fadetoblack fastchrisuk@fastchrisuk dawnoner@dawnoner oddballgraphics@oddballgraphics martbarras@martbarras stepko@stepko rod.evans.visual@rod.evans.visual yo-hoho@yo-hoho maxpateau@maxpateau gunnarheilmann@gunnarheilmann neilru75@neilru75 maximepateau@maximepateau ryuslightworks@ryuslightworks lightstabeu@lightstabeu

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WE ARE LIGHT PAINTERS

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