Light Painting at the Bushmoot 2016

[Wayland]

I've been experimenting with light painting a bit recently

and thought it might be something that people might fancy trying one night at the Moot this year.

Cobweb did something along the same lines a few years ago and I seem to recall it was quite popular.

I'm putting up a notice early because you may need to beg, borrow or buy some equipment for the best results.

You will need a camera that is capable of long exposures. That normally means something that you can control the shutter speed and aperture of, preferably something that has a B (Bulb) setting although if it has a 15 - 30 second exposure setting that should do. Most DSLRs and "Bridge" type cameras should be fine, a lot of good compacts have these settings as well.

A tripod is almost essential, the more solid the better. A remote or corded shutter release is very useful too. If no tripod is available (I have a couple of spares.) you may have to be creative in finding a way to support the camera without moving it. Not beyond the wit of many I'm sure.

Other things that are useful will be torches, led lights, Glowsticks, toy lightsabres, sparklers, fine wirewool ( 0, 00, 000 grades ) and a few gadgets I shall be bringing along. Anything interesting that produces light basically.

Have a think about it and I'm sure we can come up with all sorts of ideas.

 

[Wayne]

Sounds good. I'd but up for that.

 

[Wayland]

Nice one.

[video=vimeo;78163959]https://vimeo.com/78163959[/video]

I've been thinking of treating myself to one of these for a while so we might have this to play with as well.

 

[mousey]

This has just reminded me of this......

[video=youtube;-Rot9uaVO8s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rot9uaVO8s[/video]

can't remember what I was doing to come across it but I thought it was very, very clever.

 

[Wayland]

That is done with electro-luminescent wire, creativity and a lot of practice I reckon.

Great stuff.

 

[Dean]

Sounds like a great idea Gary, I would not mind having a go at trying something different with my camera.

 

[Wayland]

I think I can certainly guarantee it'll be different.

 

[Wayland]

This is the sort of thing I'm thinking of.

 

[brancho]

Done this with Scouts and some very basics kit

Glow sticks torches and a set battery operated fairy lights and my flash handheld and fired manually. Some indoors and some outdoors due to waether.
Results Here https://www.flickr.com/photos/hensinghamscouts/albums/72157648743145460

One of the lads does lightpainting with his dad so did some cool stuff including orb spinning

These are what the scouts managed

Hellvellyn Grp 2 Boys 7 by 1st Hensingham Scouts, on Flickr

Thursday Girls 4 by 1st Hensingham Scouts, on Flickr

Helvellen Troop by 1st Hensingham Scouts, on Flickr

Emily-Scot-Max-3 by 1st Hensingham Scouts, on Flickr

These have had pretty much no processing

This is with my Olympus XZ-1 compact and a couple of decent photographers age 13 and one of does lightpainting with his Dad and his mate.

Tom Ben Ross 19 by 1st Hensingham Scouts, on Flickr

Tom Ben Ross by 1st Hensingham Scouts, on Flickr

Tom Ben Ross shots by 1st Hensingham Scouts, on Flickr

 

[Wayland]

There are so many possibilities for light painting these days.

Great stuff Alf.

 

[Wayland]

Another one to whet your appetite.

 

[Wayland]

Another couple to show some possibilities.

 

[JohnC]

We helped at this event (some time back) at Inverleith in Edinburgh, large range of regular lamps and filters as well as some specialised lighting..

http://clairehope.com/light-painting/

 

[Wayland]

That's cool, some good results there.

 

[Wayland]

Just a little bump to remind people to bring cameras, tripods and anything that might be interesting for light painting.

 

[Leshy]

That is beautiful!

 

[Wayland]

Thank you, it's all just a trick of the light..

 

[Leshy]

Thank you, it's all just a trick of the light..

Trick of light? Very clever.
Apologies as I'm a bit slow...😉
But so there's no little torches in front of each and every stone in that circle?



PS- love the Ravenlore site too Wayland.
Got pointed there by Natural Bushcraft UK and it's awesome. Thank you for sharing all that info!!! 🙏

 

[Wayland]

Sorry for the delay, been away for a few days.

The idea behind "Painting with Light" is that you can move the light source around in the dark.

Sometimes that creates trails like this:

Or sometimes you move the light between separate exposures and put them together in the computer to make the final image like this:

In the image with a fire in front of each stone, there is only actually one light source that has been moved between each shot to create the final effect of many small fires /torches.

 

[Wayland]

So then. A light painting workshop one evening at the Moot.

Who is up for it then?

You will need a camera that is capable of long exposures. That normally means something that you can control the shutter speed and aperture of, preferably something that has a B (Bulb) setting although if it has a 15 - 30 second exposure setting that should do. Most DSLRs and "Bridge" type cameras should be fine, a lot of good compacts have these settings as well.

A tripod is almost essential, the more solid the better. A remote or corded shutter release is very useful too. If no tripod is available (I have a couple of spares.) you may have to be creative in finding a way to support the camera without moving it. Not beyond the wit of many I'm sure.

Other things that are useful will be torches, led lights, Glowsticks, toy lightsabres, sparklers, fine wirewool ( 0, 00, 000 grades ) and a few gadgets I shall be bringing along. Anything interesting that produces light basically.