Tonight, the Light Painting crew from the Mac Lab, (Christopher, Philip, Aaron, Kyle, and Christian) were out at Woodhaven Park taking light painting shots along with starting to film Chris’s Light Painting tutorials. Earlier that night, I was downtown with my dad eating at Anthony’s. I was carrying my camera and had some time to kill so I decided to take a few chaotic light painting test pictures, some buildings shots, and a 20 second exposure traffic shot. I remembered I had been informed about this event and arrived at around 8:30 after the downtown shoot. Mr. Skocko was distributing the cameras and shutter releases to the light painters when I arrived. I brought my camera along to snap a few shots and experiment under various conditions such as exposure and light sources. I managed to take a few video clips of Chris explaining the Light Painting process that will be in his tutorials. After about 3 hours I was content on the unique pictures we had taken. (I should have a few shots of tonight’s work up soon!)
Lighting Up Your World
Today, I was looking through my Dropbox folder and came across this image you see above. I started to think, what if I blend this image with another image I took of the same nature?(keep in mind, these two images I combined are car lights with a camera jolt movement) It seems like a new way for me to experiment with light painting. It may be a basic way to begin, but it could be the start of something new. In the future, I plan to make a large composition and blend two images together that have a lot of light activity and incorporate a meaning in the composition, whether its love, art, strength, or a public service. I hope to get back out on the field and gain more skills on the workflow of light painting very soon!
Time to Get the Wheels Turning
It is time to try new things. Experimentation is one way to progress in life. I plan to start working with light painting, Cinema 4D, Photoshop, and Illustrator to hopefully come up with something different but unique.
Starting Up the Engine
During morning rain, in the Mac Lab Saturday School, the ideas are starting to flow. I will be experimenting with light painting and an abstract poster combining Illustrator and Photoshop. The photo above is a light painting test I took during a road trip to Los Angeles. I took it into Photoshop and later enhanced it in Camera Raw.
The photo above is a work in progress of an abstract idea that popped into my head. I soon sketched it then traced it with the pen tool in Illustrator.
A few hours later by 11 am, I had finished shading it in Photoshop and included a few noise effects then took it into Camera Raw.
