Hello Lightpainting friends!
Turn off the lights in the room, give a child a torch or flash light or anything that lights up and it won't be long until they are trying to move it around fast enough that it tricks the eye into seeing patterns of light.
The photography art form called light painting captures this. The art work can be finished in seconds so it's great for short attention spans and can help develop an early understanding of how to get creative with a torch and a camera.
My son enjoyed it from the first moment and got quickly focused to do some special moves, but you can also let the children experiment with the camera even if they are not familiar with it yet. This is the very first result, where my nearly 5 year old son, did the lightpainting and the camera settings all by himself. I´m totally faszinated by it and I couldn´t be prouder.
Lightpainting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source while taking a long exposure photograph, either to illuminate a subject or to shine a point of light directly at the camera, or by moving the camera itself during exposure. Nothing is added or removed in post processing.
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Give the Lightpainters United Community a follow and you will be introduced into the world of light painting.
You will find innovative and original light painting from various artists from all over the world. Have a look at the profiles of some very active Lightpainter in the group:
Mafu Fuma - Oddballgraphics - Fade to Black - DAWN - Chris Thompson - Mart Barras - Stefan Stepke - Nikolay Trebukhin - Leetodd - Stabeu Light - Maxime Pateau - Stephen Sampson - lightandlense - Neil Rushby - L.A.C.E.
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