A group of light painters

Contestants in an American talent quest, the group The Aurora Light Painters impressed the viewers with their performance.

Light Painting a sky-scraper

Photographing a giant Miami sky-scraper…. a new challenge met by photographer Mike Bitler. A world first.

Light painting in the lounge

Light painting is a technique combining long exposure and a mobile light source on a dark background. Here we have 1500 shots, 2 second exposure, 1 second interval and LEDs. The result is ‘brilliant’.

Discover more light painting performances here

Light Painting with a helicopter

By illuminating the blades of a helicopter with LED, you can achieve some astonishing Light-Painting effects.

Trouble is I’ve never seen a commercial helicopter with LED mounted directly on the blades. On the other hand you can always make your own

Light Painting with a drill

Orbs have made quite an impact on the art of Light Painting. But up until now no-one had thought of rotating LEDs with a drill to create them. Read this article to see how it’s done. The video show the usual way to create orbs.

Light Painting
with the Matrix effect

Light Painting combined with the ‘Bullet Time’ effect of the film ‘Matrix’ gives rise to unique and totally fascinating images.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Bullet Time effect, here’s a video explanation. And to learn how to combine Light Painting with this effect….