Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Let's Learn to Paint with Light

Here is something really cool I learned to do last summer. It's called light painting.

This is a picture I took last summer in Arizona at night using a flashlight and a camera at the same time. It's called light painting or painting with light.

A camera takes in reflected light to make its image. If you set the camera to keep its lens open a long time in the dark, you can control the exact light that shows up in the picture. In the picture of Mr. Shelton on the left, we only reflected a little light on him and then had him leave the shot. It made a ghostly image and one of my favorite pictures that I have ever taken.

Look at this video of people getting really creative and scientific with light painting. The video is thousands and thousands of still images all put together into one long animation.


Now read this quick guide:

A beginner’s guide to light painting.

33 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:45 AM

    wow this is awesome

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  2. Anonymous8:46 AM

    i think we should do this its so cool

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  3. Anonymous8:46 AM

    they should make a dog

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  4. Anonymous8:46 AM

    we should do this

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  5. Anonymous8:46 AM

    it looks very hard to do.

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    1. Anonymous8:50 AM

      yes it does look hard to do

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  6. Anonymous8:46 AM

    that is cool we should do this

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  7. Anonymous8:49 AM

    this looks hard

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  8. Anonymous8:50 AM

    howhowhow

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  9. Anonymous8:51 AM

    that was pretty awesome

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  10. Anonymous8:51 AM

    cool it looks like it was hard to invent

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  11. Anonymous8:51 AM

    looks hard and very expensive

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  12. Anonymous8:54 AM

    This is definitely cool....I wanna try it!
    next week I wanna have free day next time,and our ice cream...:)

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  13. Anonymous8:54 AM

    this looks awesome!!

    we should do this

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  14. Anonymous9:11 AM

    WE.SHOULD.DO.THIS.IN.THE.FIFTH.GRDE.HALLWAY.IF10.

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  15. Anonymous9:11 AM

    This looks hard. But if we did it it would be cool. i think we should make a flower or something!

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  16. Anonymous9:11 AM

    this looks so cool. we should tottaly do this.

    i'd make a dog tho follow me.

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  17. Anonymous9:11 AM

    i wonder how they do that. i wonder if they can do anything. can we do that.

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  18. Anonymous9:11 AM

    i like it.It looks cool.We should try it.

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  19. Anonymous9:11 AM

    wow this is awesome.the light making is so cool.plz let's do it

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  20. Anonymous9:12 AM

    this is totally awesome.I am so going to try this at home if I can.I am speechless.Scientists are so thoughtful!
    I would like ot have our ice cream next week and a free day,or possibly try this next week.It would be cool!

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  21. Anonymous9:12 AM

    This is cool.I'd like to do a robot.I think we should do it soon.

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  22. Anonymous9:12 AM

    INSPATIONAL.AND.AWESOME.IF10.

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  23. Anonymous9:12 AM

    okay how.Now WE SHOULD DO THIS IN THE CLASSROOM.um um um um um um um this is AMAZING.

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  24. Anonymous9:12 AM

    mr losik,
    ithink we should do this b/c it looks awesome

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  25. Anonymous9:13 AM

    That looks really hard to do. who was the first person to think of that?i think we should do that.

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  26. Anonymous9:13 AM

    i like this. i would love to do this. but looks hard and very expensive.

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  27. Anonymous9:13 AM

    that was cool. How did they get the light to shine in mid air? that looks fun but hard

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  28. Anonymous9:13 AM

    this is so cool its hard to belive. and we should do this.so will we

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  29. Anonymous9:14 AM

    that is so cool. i wanna see it for real.looks hard

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  30. Anonymous9:14 AM

    It looks complicated.i;d like to do a ship.It also looks fun.

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  31. Anonymous9:14 AM

    i think we should do this. because this could be fun.Also a good experince

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  32. Anonymous9:14 AM

    This is so cool.I would like to do this next week.I would like to make a house.

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