Light Painting...? (1 Viewer)

[RedFrame]

Not sure if this has been covered before but I love the effect it produces... Gonna have a go with the new 'home as soon as the weather allows...

Cheers
Red

 

[Figaro]

Can you explain the effect it produces and how it's done (in simple terms) for those of us not familiar, but interested in an amateurish sort of way

 

[BwB]

Dark night/room, long exposure, walk around shining a torch on the bits you want shown?

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[Rob and Val]

I thought you meant you were going to paint all the edges of your motorhome bright yellow!

 

[Deleted member 29692]

Can you explain the effect it produces and how it's done (in simple terms) for those of us not familiar, but interested in an amateurish sort of way

In the OP example you can see the caravan appears much more well lit than the background. That's what it is - having different areas of the image seemingly lit differently

You can achieve this when you take the shot with lighting and judicious use of flash or you can just take the picture and do it in Photoshop afterwards.

I won't launch into a long detailed Photoshop explanation because it would be gibberish to most people but of the several possible ways to do it a relatively simple/amateur method would be the use of masks on the object you want to "light"

Like with almost everything in Photoshop there are multiple ways to do it and everyone who knows how to will do it slightly differently.

 

[Deleted member 29692]

Dark night/room, long exposure, walk around shining a torch on the bits you want shown?

I'd do it with a fast exposure and multiple off camera flash if I had the time to faff around setting it up because that's great fun to play with.

If I didn't have time it's Photoshop all the way.

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[RedFrame]

In the OP example you can see the caravan appears much more well lit than the background. That's what it is - having different areas of the image seemingly lit differently

You can achieve this when you take the shot with lighting and judicious use of flash or you can just take the picture and do it in Photoshop afterwards.

I won't launch into a long detailed Photoshop explanation because it would be gibberish to most people but of the several possible ways to do it a relatively simple/amateur method would be the use of masks on the object you want to "light"

Like with almost everything in Photoshop there are multiple ways to do it and everyone who knows how to will do it slightly differently.

I'd do it with a fast exposure and multiple off camera flash if I had the time to faff around setting it up because that's great fun to play with.

If I didn't have time it's Photoshop all the way.

NO, "Light Painting" definitely does NOT include use of a computer (Photoshop) ...

You can certainly achieve similar results by sitting indoors looking at a screen...

Get out, grab a big torch, set your Camera to "M" and have a play...!

Cheers
Red...

 

[Deleted member 29692]

NO, "Light Painting" definitely does NOT include use of a computer (Photoshop) ...

You can certainly achieve similar results by sitting indoors looking at a screen...

Get out, grab a big torch, set your Camera to "M" and have a play...!

Cheers
Red...

My cameras are never set to anything other than M but that sort of effect isn't something that particularly interests me.

Anyone who uses Photoshop professionally won't achieve a similar result. They would achieve exactly that result or better in less time than it took you to faff around with a torch

If I ever need to achieve the effect I'll stick with Photoshop thanks unless a client is going to pay me to do it any other way which I can guarantee you they won't.