light painting
Lightscythe Is The Mother Of All Light Painting Sabers
Gavin from Sydney (Flickr user Mechatronics) came up with this amazing application for programmable LED strips. Using an small Arduino to control 2m programmable LED…
Give People An Aura Using Light Painting
See that nice aura on the picture to the left? No… it was not taken using the new generation of psychic point and shoot, not…
Superhero Light Painting With Sparkles
Way back we featured a tutorial about using sparkles and long exposure to lightpaint a car. Photographer Benjamin Von Wong took this to the next…
Your complete guide for photographing star trails
Ever seen those pictures where the stars streak across the sky in a big arc? Or maybe the whole sky looked like it was spinning?…
Light Painting: People On Magical Fire
Here’s a light painting trick you can do on the cheap that yields a neat result. And besides…Who doesn’t want to look like a super…
Create Geometric Light Painting Spirographs
Spirals, I could talk for hours on end about what they are, their geometrical qualities, or the fact that earth will die without their existence….
The Making of Phill’s Pet
When I saw Phil’s Pet on Flickr (on the left. Click for a bigger view) I knew I just had to learn how it was…
21 Photographs And Lighting Setups For Every Occasion
It would be very pretentious of me to declare that looking at the photographs and diagrams below will teach you how to light. That said,…
Light Stencils Video Tutorial (And A Pacman Bonus)
One of the more interesting methods used in lightpainting is Light Stencils. We featured a written tutorial for light stencils a while back, and thought…
Video Light Painting – The Easy Way
One of the most repeated questions we get on our light painting tuts is: “Yes, but how about video? Can you light paint in video?“…






































