And now for something completely different.....

[Brettus]

A rather odd post but thought some people might enjoy a look anyway.
I've just got back from holiday (no they aren't my holiday snaps! :P) and a friend asked if I wanted to go out for a photo trip, we had decided on a technique and wanted a location, we found one. Pretty damn cool if I do say so myself.

as a first effort I think they turned out rather well:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brettnet/sets/72157622043806298/

Been playing with lightroom and processing them over the weekend, interesting stuff. (if you like that kind of thing I guess)

Anyhoo, ego massage over, hope some of you like them anyway.

[Spiderman]

I like em mate. Like an ultra modern interpretation of Piccasso's attempts at painting with light.
Nice work.
https://www2.evergreen.edu/wikis/mediaartiststudio/images/3/31/Picasso_lightpainting.jpg

[Jdubya]

What were you using as your light sources? I had a little play with this a while ago. I like your results though. Nice!

[Brettus]

Thanks for the comments guys, the lights were whatever cheap LED lit tat we could lay our hands on, light wands, LED torches and the most spectacular effect is wire wool of all things.

effectively these are just slow shutter pictures of geeks dicking around in an abandoned building with lights LOL but they look pretty cool.

Ruiner was one I wanted to take to give a basic take on light painting, lighting up a structure/object as you wish over the course of the exposure. Looks rather unimpressive next to the brightly coloured other ones but I still like it.

[Richie]

Looks like your going to have to give us lessons in Light room CS4 ;-)

me likes them...

[Supervox]

Very nice - funnily enough I only saw this type of effect for the first time last week -

DAILY TELEGRAPH (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/6010887/Light-graffiti-the-photography-of-Michael-Bosanko.html)

:cool:

[Brettus]

Looks like your going to have to give us lessons in Light room CS4 ;-)

me likes them...

Thought they might appeal to you Richie :) Lightroom is just for tweaking the colours, the majority of them are as shot just a little sharpened etc.

The lightroom test one is unedited. I was testing an upload script from lightroom so didn't edit the picture and was going to remove it but then got my first and only comment on an image LOL.

Very nice - funnily enough I only saw this type of effect for the first time last week -

DAILY TELEGRAPH (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/6010887/Light-graffiti-the-photography-of-Michael-Bosanko.html)

:cool:

Nice, I'd known about it for a while. I dabbled with my bridge camera (Canon S3 IS) but could only get 15 second pictures before the noise made it unusable.

My early test images:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3306/3435179431_29fc2185e9.jpg

As you can see I didn't expect this one to work as well as it did, given that I'm stood there in pyjamas and slippers LOL doh!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3594/3435183217_a3b4b47fa6.jpg

:oops:

[Woz]

How did you get the effect of sparks bouncing off the ground?

[Brettus]

How did you get the effect of sparks bouncing off the ground?

Simply put, we threw sparks at the ground. We used wire wool on a length of wire, used a 9v battery to short circuit it and instant sparky stuff!

I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE, AND I BRING YOU.....FIRE!

:D

[DarrenSV650S]

I don't believe you :-k

[Brettus]

I don't believe you :-k

Even with photographic evidence? :-)
must admit I was seriously impressed with the simplicity.

[Quiff Wichard]

They are briliant.. would make a nice big big pic for my lounge.

[Richie]

Two photo's merged together and photoshopped (mine is faked)

Brettus Photo's are fantastic.

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/391/lightpen2.jpg

[sv-robo]

Cool......very trippy:smt119

[Brettus]

Haha like it Richie, bonus points for creativity :D I would try drawing in the air if I could actually draw, hence the randomly waved things, but the effect works well enough, will definitely have to play more with this stuff.

Need more interesting locations to play in.

[BournemouthBen]

incredible pics. looks like your using an angle grinder...

[Speedy Claire]

Really like them... nice work

[Brettus]

Bumped as I was discussing these on a rideout with someone (can't remember the name though I'm afraid. I'm crap like that)
Flickr sets:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brettnet/sets/72157622043806298/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brettnet/sets/72157621989188007/

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3463/3822199785_46b8ed42f0_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2486/3823007882_3c36e4d595_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2522/3827661170_c25ebd387f_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2478/3822208779_46849a5ffe_b.jpg

this one is photoshopped for colour only
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2617/3822469411_f404aac479_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2532/3846901936_63257f80fd_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2532/3846901936_63257f80fd_b.jpg

[Milky Bar Kid]

I really like these!

[Richie]

So tell us lot how you did them please... :0)

[Brettus]

So tell us lot how you did them please... :0)
Gladly, it's not as complex as it looks though.

The main effect (the only one used in the first and last pics) is done with wire wool, I have a bungee cord with a metal spiral egg cup on the end, stuff some wire wool into that then touch a 9v battery to the fibers, they short circuit and glow, but that then passes on to other fibers, spin it around in the air and it keeps going and hot glowing bits fall off and create the trails leaving the main lot. (the shutter has to be open for the duration of this to follow the light trail) we did it as a relay, one person controlling the two cameras (my friend has one and I had mine) so the person doing the running around in the dark could say start and stop to isolate particular effects.

I think the longest shutter opening was 1:30-2:00 or something like that. not huge amounts of time, most were only 20-30 seconds so doable on some of the bridge cameras or fancy compacts that allow such shutter lengths.

the other trails and things were a combination of LED light wands and LED torches swung or waved in various manners (yes we looked like the idiots we we were felt but at least it was dark)

Thanks for the comments everyone, always appreciated! :)

[yorkie_chris]

I bet you could get some cool effects with a grinder or an oxy torch 8)

[Electro]

Those pictures are really cool Brettus. Doing some outdoors set against an old building at twilight would be awesome.

[anna]

on the same lines as.............