Hi everyone,

Last month, I made a lightpainting session with my buddy Gaël and his elder sister Déborah : they wanted to create something cool for their parents for Mother's Day and Father's Day and I was down with it.

As Gaël knows now how lightpainting works, Deborah took half an hour to test it in different ways. When she felt ready, we started to figure out how to do what they had in mind.

I let them play to gether with light(s) during about an hour, giving them tips of course but without doing anything by myself in front of the camera.

Back in the days I was showing how I do lightpainting in my own style at the beginning of all workshops, doing portraits of all attendees. But I changed my mind 8 years ago and I switched to another method : the new sequencing allows people to experiment by themselves first, without any boundaries except their imagination. After that, I grab the lamps and I show how I use them according to the mood of the present moment.

I sincerely don't care if people copy my style (I've been inspirated by several lightpainting artists during my journey and this is something that feels ok for me) but I think they can do really cooler things if they do it their own way. I only scratch the surface of this artform (about 1%) and there's so many things to try and explore. I'm not that creative, neither a good story-teller too^^

Well, As we were chatting about endless possibilities of lightpainting (rookies always want to do EVERYTHING they have inmind during their first session!), I showed them few simple tricks I have in my bag. This is one of those :

78s 26mm f/4 100 ISO

Lightpainting created in real time, captured to the camera in one single photographic frame. SOOC
No layers /no Photoshop / no editing except minor adjustments (lens correction profite, WB, contrast (+12)) and addition of my logo.

Gear :
Canon EOS 6D body
Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS II USM lens
Canon RC-E6 IR remote
Zomei carbon tripod

May 2024

WHAT IS LIGHTPAINTING?
Lightpainting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source while taking a long exposure photograph, either to illuminate a subject or to shine a point of light directly at the camera, or by moving the camera itself during exposure. Nothing is added or removed in post processing.

Single exposure Light Art Photography
/nolayer /notricks /nophotoshop

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