How to paint wings with light using the Light Painting Brushes’ new feather attachment
May 17, 2016
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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Light painting is a fascinating technique that’s evolved over the last few years from the humble flashlight into an elaborate array of tools, gadgets, gizmos, and even apps, with ever more wild and creative results being produced on a daily basis.
In this video, Jason D. Page shows us how to use the new Plexiglass feather attachment from Light Painting Brushes in order to create wings during a long exposure.
While the image made in the video is relatively simple compared to some of the examples on the Light Painting Brushes website, it does a great job of showing how the technique works and how effective it can be with a little patience and practise.
The Plexiglass attachments certainly offer an interesting twist on light painting, and while you can certainly have your own designs cut out by any number of online services, the folks at Light Painting Brushes have already created a few to get you started, which the new feather attachment now joins.
To help make things a little easier, Light Painting Brushes have also provided us with a discount code especially for the readers of DIYP, knocking 15% off everything bought in their online store for the next week.
Just use the code DIYP_15 during checkout, and you’re good to go!
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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5 responses to “How to paint wings with light using the Light Painting Brushes’ new feather attachment”
Yay for photoshop for making an extremely boring photo into something you look at and say, wow, if it wasn’t for Photoshop this photo would suck.
This isn’t Photoshop.
Reading has become a bit of a lost art.
Lindsay Brown
This photo still sucks. Kitsch. Big time :)