Just for the 4th of July, we thought to show you how to make a different kind of fireworks, the liquid kind.
If you liked Corrie White's how to shoot water drops tutorial, you are going to love her how to shoot a liquid flow tutorial (it's this tutorial :).
And here is how it goes
Hello again! It’s Dana, twin cities brightest, back again with more tricks for light painting photography.
I hope you have all been practicing because it’s time to deal with the unruly beast - fireworks.
I know that the title is a bit counter intuitive, how can you make a time lapse from of an event that only lasts a fraction of a second?
Water drop Photographer Extraordinaire Corrie White managed to take a time-lapse of two colliding drops, by composing 357 photographs. Each shot is taken a fraction of a second later in the collision process. Although the drops don't match 100%, the result still gives a pretty good idea on how the mushroom pastern is formed.
Of course, is way cheaper than getting a bazillion FPS video camera alternative.
If you ever played portal you know how enchanting this game can be. For those of you that are unfamiliar with the game, it is kind of a hybrid between a 3D shooter and a puzzle game, where the hero (you) can create small portals pairs which are linked and skip from one portal to the other.
Highly addictive.
Jeremy Jackson AKA tackyshack recreated a man jumping in mid-portal scene with a single light painted exposure.
You know what you get when you cross programming and photography? Kick bottoms light painting. A year ago today we featured Michael Ross's (a.k.a. TxPilot) Digital Light Wand. It is a wonderful Arduino based tool that creates pictures in mid air.
Well, Michael is at it again. Yesterday Michael released his tutorial for a programmable Orb. (click here if you need an orb primer).
Similarly to the wand, the Programmable LED Orb Tool (o.k. you are PLOT from now on)... so similarly to the wand, the PLOT takes any bitmap or jpg image and converts it to a pattern that Arduino can understand. Click to continue ›
Photographer and light painting extraordinaire TigTab (who makes beautiful light stencil images) sent a light bat flying all over the word.
Well, actually, it is a bat light stencil (similar to the stencil tigtab made a tutorial for in the past, only this one is collapsible - see new tutorial after the jump).
The bat stencil will travel some 50,000 miles and visit 28 light painters in what I think is the biggest light painting chain letter in the history of man.
The bat, friendly named TAD started his travel in Australia almost 2 years ago and is still wondering the world. If you wanna follow the bat around (or join in on some of the next traveling stencils, check out the Light Stencil Central flickr group. (Or check the F-light of the Night flickr group to see the original bat travels)
And now, how to make a fordable light box tutorial (the stencil instructions can be found here) Click to continue ›
Vimeo member Stavros Koulis shares a great video and a set of instruction on how to make a cool little motorized skater dolly.
A while back I was too cheap (lazy?) to get around to purchasing some speedlights and in typical DIY fashion for me, I figured I could replicate most results using nothing more than a flashlight. So one evening with my friend Sean and his wife, we decided to try out some long exposure light painting ideas.
To be clear, the term "light painting" is often used to describe painting light onto an image where the bulb is visible, and used to create something visual in the final result. This is NOT what I am referring to here. I've seen plenty that are nice, but I don't personally have much interest in doing this: Click to continue ›
When it comes to creativity with water, Jack Long is one of the most out of the box photographers I know. (Jack is also the master mind behind this water curtain tutorial)
In his latest series he creates Vases with flowers, leafs and all using painted water splashes.
As usual Jack does not tell how the shots were taken but he does tell
us that, images are not composed in Photoshop and are that each image
is taken in a single exposure. Click to continue ›
If you are doing any extensive light painting work, especially if you are doing it alone, you know that one of the more annoying things about it is triggering your camera.
You could always use the timer, or the intervalometer, but for more complex stuff timing of both the camera and starting the tools becomes harder and harder.
Some cameras have an infra red remote, but the distance is pretty limited.
Sawo of Enlightpaintment came up with a pretty neat solution, they use a garage door opener remote from eBay with Canon's 2.5 mm trigger jack to create a 150ft camera remote that is capable of both focusing and triggering. See the tutorial after the jump. Click to continue ›
