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Some light painting

Discussion

9 replies
Posted by Paul Wegemann on December 3, 2012 at 8:26 PM
Sorry for not participating much in the forum this past year.
Posted by Paul Wegemann on December 3, 2012 at 8:28 PM
Looks like I can only post one large image at a time, so I'll do another post.
Posted by John Mumaw on December 3, 2012 at 9:50 PM
Well done, Paul!
I like how you used the light selectively, and I really like the shadow cast by the rock in the foreground. That adds a lot to the lit hoodoos. Very nicely seen, executed and 'developed'. I like this one a lot!
Posted by Scott Fricke on December 3, 2012 at 10:41 PM
Nice work on the lighting and placement of lights, I think the color of the light works nicely as well.
Posted by Amy Lindsey on December 3, 2012 at 10:46 PM
Very nice Paul!
Posted by Howard Cihak on December 4, 2012 at 2:25 AM
Paul, this is really something. What kind of equipment are you using to achieve this?
Posted by Don Grall on December 4, 2012 at 1:28 PM
Love the depth on this one and the angle of light was expertly chosen, it looks like you had some extra hands to enable this one or else you are really fast.
Posted by Paul Wegemann on December 4, 2012 at 9:31 PM
Thanks for the comments everyone.
Howard, I use a small 160 LED, battery powered, video light on a painter's pole. In the case of this image, it allowed me to light the top of the hoodoos.
Don, I actually lit this one myself. I shot it in small pieces, then blended them in Photoshop. It's much easier to manage a large scene this way.
Posted by Stan Rose on December 5, 2012 at 11:46 PM
That's awesome, Paul! Im usually not a huge fan of light paintings, but that's because they're usually not very well done--but this is well done!
Posted by Paul Wegemann on December 6, 2012 at 8:24 AM
Thanks for the feedback, Stan.