There doesn't seem to be many Pentaxians doing light painting, so here's a few of my recent shots to raise the interest level.

[baro-nite]

Fascinating set! And your technique is well-suited to making sets of images, with the light "objects" as motifs. "Technicolor" caught me by surprise; I spent a few seconds wondering how you got such a strong effect shooting in daylight, until I noticed the star trails. "Mary Street" is my favorite, because of how the light painting has its counterpart with the lights from the cars.

[Na Horuk]

Very nice series! Interesting technique and beautiful photos, thanks for sharing

[daacon]

I quite like these - care to share how you did them ?

[slowpez]

Very nice. I'm with Dave on learning more about how you did them.

[spyglass]

Fresh, Exciting, and very Creative. Well done!

[sioyed]

Good shots. Well done.

[Light_Horseman]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

There are a few different techniques here. The coloured surfaces are a done with cheap cokin coloured filters and a either a flash or high powered flash light to paint the surface. The multi-colour wavy lights are done with a LED Lenser V-24. The sparks are burning steel wool in an egg whisk on a length of wire to spin around and some magnesium strip thrown in for the white streaks. The spheres are a custom made tool that rotates and pivots with a colour changing light on the end.

All exposures are on a tripod, bulb mode and a cactus V5 for trigger release. I usually try to shoot with a full moon in order to get a better exposure for the scene.

Hopefully that's covered the basics. Googling for light painting techniques will give you a lot more info.

Cheers

Daniel

[schnitzer79]

been doing some reading recently on light painting and its very interesting.great set of photos you have there