Dave Black Photography Light Painting
Last night dave black and i conducted a light painting session for 2 groups of the mentor series trek in arches national park.
Dave black photography light painting. For dave black lightpainting fits well with his desire to create unique imaginative images that grab direct and hold viewers attention. A homemade cardboard slit snoot two pieces of cardboard taped together like a sandwich with the stylus inserted into one end and the other end pinched to a 1 16 inch opening provided a thin shaft of light for the painting. Evening pickup irina 2007 c dave black all rights res. Fly hooks dave light painted with his stylus penlight and got close to his small subjects by using a 36mm extension tube on his lens.
For more info and where to purchase simply google search the product name. These products availability may change from time to time. The exposure was 30 seconds long f 8 iso 400. Nelson sundown nelson nevada.
This allows me to press the shutter and then have 5 seconds to get into an off camera location to light paint before the shutter opens. Dave black follows up his popular lightpainting class painting with light. No matter the scope of the lightpainting image dave s technique and his choice of gear don t vary all that much. By including the available ambient light from the garage to be seen in the background the picture has far more depth and a sense of place than if i had an empty black background.
You are in effect painting with light after precisely lightpainting the yellow tail fly for 15 seconds i then brushed some light along the green tail flies for about 7 10 seconds. Lightpainting flashlights and spotlights. Lightpainting flashlights and spotlights. A unique approach with 8 new lessons on how to lightpaint live models.
Dave has been light painting for years and he s a real pro at it. He ll show you all the gear you need and all the. The photo above was my first attempt as a test prior to the workshop participants arrival. 2013 c dave black all rights res.
I will activate the long exposure noise reduction mode for exposure times longer than 1 minute to prevent a buildup of noise created by the camera. I used the same lightpainting procedures as before circular motion brush like strokes and dusting and applied light to portions of the engine body and tires from.