Light painting: a creative form of photography
Monday 15 April 2024, 22:33 by Nando Harmsen | 3,236 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.
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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, je zegt dat het verre van perfect is. Maar moet dat dan meteen? Hetgeen je nu hebt laten zien, vind ik al een mooi resultaat. Je gaat nog niet in op het geheim van de smid, maar ik heb het idee dat je telkens met een andere kleur licht een foto maakt om dan later alle foto's te gaan samenvoegen met behulp van Photoshop.
This comment was written in another language and has not been translated yet.
Het lijkt me boeiend daar wat meer over te zien en misschien is het de moeite waard om video's te maken in de zin van 'the making of'.
Ik kijk uit naar meer van dit moois. -
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Donald Willemsen wrote on Tuesday 16 April 2024 at 11:55 | reply
Nando, ik vind het zondermeer knap werk en erg creatief. Maar dan ben ik zeer benieuwd hoe je het gedaan hebt 😃.
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