How is this effect achieved?

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Hi folks, another quick question...

this picture here for example...

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how would you create this? is it using a long shutter speed and some sort of light?

is this "light painting"?

I think it looks great and would love to have a go myself :)

thanks for the help as always,

Sammy
 
Your right it's light painting do a search on flickr for examples and groups
 
What you said is right :)

It can be great fun, I've tried it a couple of times. One was a shot of my sister sitting reading a book, I had the camera on a tripod and set the shutter speed for 5 seconds while I danced the torch above the book. It looked pretty cute and luckily she was very good at staying still! :D It took a few shots before I got a light shape that I was happy with.
 
so as a quick guide you would set the tripod up, start shooting and then just shine a torch?

im a bit confused as in do you have to go in front of the camera and hold it there moving about?
 
Ben wilmore is a really good exponent of this.. I went to his seminar at photoshop world.

http://www.thebestofben.com/

Check out the galleries for lightpainting.

Best thing is a totally black room to do the light trails which are then combined with a lit or partially lit image later in Photoshop. You can do it in one exposure but it needs a TOTALLY black room and quite a few tries to make it look right..
 
I do this with models. dark room long exposure and a torch. easy to experiment with. set the aperture of the DOF you want then use iso to get the correct exposure when you use bulb.
 
ok so bare with me :)

I park my car in a garage or somewhere mega dark, set the camera up on the tripod and then press shoot and i shine the torch on the car from behind the camera? or do i run in front of the car with a torch shining at the camera?

i am confusing myself lol
 
If you're behind the camera you'll only see where the light has reflected off a surface. I think you need to be in shot for effects similar to the above where the light trails are in 'mid air' so to speak.

I think led's are often used as the light source, and I imagine you make sure that the light doesn't illuminate you whilst you are moving it about, maybe by wearing black.

Then I suppose you expose the car fully when out of shot with a flash?

That's just me guessing by the way. I've never actually done it. But like others have said, google light painting and you will find lots of info on how it's done.
 
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for a shot like this one, you want a very clean car, parked in a darkish place. A slow shutter speed, maybe 10 seconds- maybe longer if you want to get intricate with the lighting? fire a flash gun if you want the car to be well lit up, then move fast with a light want or torch along the lines you wish to highlight.
 
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