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[danmerkel@sbcglobal.net]

One thing that I don't remember seeing in any of the posts so far is the use of a color gel over the camera lens during exposure. I had a friend in theater steer me to a company who sold the gels very inexpensively and I used several of them in making my shots. I also changed them during the exposure to get some different effects.

dlm

[MSidPhoto]

Hey All...

One of the questions I asked weren't aswered by Ryan. So can anyone else help out.

My question is that the flash light used, does it have to be a small one like maglite or it can also be a normal sized flash light..

Another question is that do you throw the light and let is swing naturally or keep holding it. If you throw the light then is there a special technique to throw it or just doing it randomly ?????

Will appreciate if you can answer.

P.S. @dlm: Sir, people have used cloured gels on flash lights other than camera lens, though the results would be different. Just wanted to let you know...

Thanks

[ororockcrawler]

^ I used a small light, single LED, cheap one from a dollar store. Experiment with how far the light is from the camera. I also found getting a good balance were the string is tied, the light does not wobble to much for clear lines.

[yjoshi]

The moment i saw this is know i was going to try this.. here are the initial results..

Light Painting - a set on Flickr

Hope to do better at a later point of time.

[ZELDAdog]

That's REALLY cool!!!

[Mike_N]

The pictures are awesome! I have not seen anything like it. You gave me an idea for a couple photo projects.

Thanks for sharing!

[ryan the mort]

sorry, just saw your post. yes, i used a mini maglite. sometimes they're called "pen lights" because of obvious reasons. the smaller bulb helps make the sharper lines.

[ryan the mort]

i simply threw mine randomly. sometimes i threw it straight across, other times i went for circles. the key to getting similar images to mine is to use a mini maglight and a wide angle lens. this way you can have really long exposures with fine lines and not too much light coming from the flashlight. my string was also attached to a hook that was hinged. so the string was swinging in circles and the hook was also moving back and forth.

[MSidPhoto]

Thanks a lot Ryan ......really appreciate that

[10chungs1]

how did you throw the light? mine just went in random circles, and what height did you throw at. this will help future attempts thanks