Light painting, or light drawing, is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source while taking a long exposure 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. Long exposure allows you to shut the camera's shutter speed for a long-duration to sharply capture the image whilst lighting, blurring, smearing, or moving elements.
Artists who use light painting
Vicki DaSilva
Vicki Dasilva is a light graffiti and light painting artist. She has been making single frame time exposure photographs at night since 1980. She is credited with the term 'light graffiti' as well as being the first artist to make deliberate text light graffiti photos beginning in 1980.
When Gjon Mili (a technical prodigy and lighting innovator) visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949, it was clear that the meeting of the two artists and craftsmen was bound to result in something extraordinary. Mili showed Picasso some of his photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates, jumping in the dark. Picasso gave Mili 15 minutes to try one experiment. He was so fascinated by the result that he posed for five sessions, projecting 30 drawings of centaurs, bulls, greek profiles and his signature. Mili took his photographs in a darkened room, using two cameras, one for side view, another for front view. By leaving the shutters open, he caught the light streaks swirling through space. This series of photographs, known ever since as Picasso's 'light drawings' were made with a small electric light in a dark room.
Hannu Huhtamo
Huhtamo has been light painting since 2008 but it was back in the 90's when he shot his first light painting image. Huhtamo was shooting a death metal band and wanted to draw out a pentagram with a lighter so he opened the shutter of his camera and created his first light painting image. After that he moved away from shooting any other light painting images until LPP feature artist Janne Parviainen showed him some of his images, form that moment Hannu Huhtamo was hooked on light painting. Huhtamo's work focuses on organic forms, more specifically he draws beautiful flowers.
As a workshop our class experimented with light painting. We used a small torch to experiment with light painting. We also used an app to project words to use for light painting. Here are some photos from the workshop:
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