Light painting: a creative form of photography
Monday 15 April 2024, 22:33 by Nando Harmsen | 3,333 views | 4 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
A few years ago, I started experimenting with light painting. That was short-lived, as I did little with it. Now I have picked it up again and started practising. It is far from perfect, but it does not have to be. Not yet.
Light painting is fun to do. You can make simple circles with a light stick or lightsaber. You can swing burning steel wool around. But there is so much more you can do with it.
I started picking this up again half a year ago. Slowly, as I was busy with my book about star trails. My first serious attempt was drawing swans. I wrote about it in an article.
I have now continued practising and it is great fun to do. Not just some circles or burning steel wool, but something more than that. This has resulted in a light painting of a tree.
Practice makes perfect, as the saying goes. And that is what I will be doing over the coming months, or the coming year. That is and remains the secret to achieving the desired results. I do not yet know how my results will turn out. I am simply enjoying the process.
About the author
Nando Harmsen has been photographing for more than 40 years. He specialises in wedding photography and landscape photography. Nando also gives talks, workshops, masterclasses and photo trips, and regularly reviews new and interesting equipment.
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4 comments
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Donald Willemsen wrote on Tuesday 16 April 2024 at 10:24 | replyNando, you say it is far from perfect. But does it have to be right away? What you have shown now, I already think is a beautiful result. You don't go into the secret of the trade yet, but I get the impression that you take a photo each time with a different color of light, only to later merge all the photos using Photoshop.
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It seems interesting to me to see more about that and perhaps it would be worth making videos along the lines of 'the making of'.
I look forward to more of this beauty. -
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Donald Willemsen wrote on Tuesday 16 April 2024 at 11:55 | reply
Nando, I think it's simply impressive work and very creative. But now I'm very curious how you did it 😃.
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