I was blown away when I came across these light paintings yesterday on Reddit. The concept is pretty simple: take long exposure photos of people moving lights around. It sounds simple enough, but with the right skill intricate drawings can emerge.
Light painting has been around for a long time and has been done by more artists than you would expect. Below, a light painting done by Picasso in 1924.
The ‘crew’ creating these intricate works involve many people moving together on one image. The results are breath taking.
The man behind the work, LICHTFAKTOR, can be found on myspace. You can check out all of his photos in this flickr slideshow. To learn how they did it you can check out their equipment and watch a video of their light painting in action.
- chris
September 17, 2007 at 11:28 am
wow, how do you do that??
November 8, 2007 at 6:55 am
This is completly Brillient!
Inspiration!
sam
January 30, 2008 at 6:27 pm
amazing, i imagin how you do it and i`m surprised how long it takes, congratulations, very good work
March 27, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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August 22, 2008 at 4:09 am
Hey great pictures, check out my light-graffiti pictures http://www.saschaheyer.de
please comment
November 19, 2008 at 4:37 am
this is totally awesome
January 11, 2009 at 5:16 pm
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