New light painting tool

[gazbrooks]

I've been out and about giving my new tool a test run. As you can see I have to dim the LED's down a bit, and move faster/ open the aperture up a bit.
Hope you all like it (also my first pic uploaded to the gallery )


Ghostly Domes by Gareth Brooks, on Flickr

[Cobalt]

please tell me what this new tool is... i would love to give it a try

[RedEyes©]

that is cool, nice one

[gazbrooks]

please tell me what this new tool is... i would love to give it a try

You'll be surprised how easy it is once you've built it! Have a look at the tutorial from the the creator of the dome:
http://longexposuretips.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-light-painted-domes.html

[gazbrooks]

that is cool, nice one

Thanks

[Rosie]

Thanks for sharing! I often wonder about a lot of these light painting shapes

[gazbrooks]

Out again late the other night doing another spot of light painting.


They're here! by Gareth Brooks, on Flickr

And another from the same night.


Light Painting with Ribbons of Light by Gareth Brooks, on Flickr

[Mark Sykes]

Very cool work

Do you use a glow stick for the ribbon effect and adjust the hues late in PP ?

[gazbrooks]

Thanks. The entire photograph is SOOC apart from a slight adjustment to the sky.
The light ribbons was created using a light wand that changes colours. It's just a matter of waving it around slowly, but not too slow as you'll show up.

Oh and nope, I don't edit any hues at all. The colours come entirely from my light wand (which looks like a posh light sabre!)

[ravens-eye]

Loving your progression. The domes are cool and never really been a fan of the wands but they are growing on me. I have become addicted to steel wool spinning just lately.

[Cobalt]

ya i have wanted to do the steel wool... all you do is just light it on fire with a string or wire or something and spin it around right? or do you dip the steel wool in something to make it ignite?

[ALwin]

ya i have wanted to do the steel wool... all you do is just light it on fire with a string or wire or something and spin it around right? or do you dip the steel wool in something to make it ignite?

Tie it to something that does not easily burn off or break easily, such as a thin but durable wire cable. You do not need to dip it in anything, just light it with a small torch and let it burn. Steel wool fibers are very fine that they catch fire easily.

[ravens-eye]

I use a metal egg wisk as the cage to hold the steel wool in and I use a dog lead attached to the wisk to spin it with. I ignite with a 9v battery (a lighter can be picked up in the exposure and is also useless in the wind).
Hope that helps.

[gazbrooks]

I use a whisk as well which I have clipped onto a metal wire.

If you pull apart the wire wool it also allows more air into the burn, which results in loads more sparks!!!!!
Bundle it up at the end of the whisk and it burns slower but with less sparks.

[gazbrooks]

My latest Light Painting from last weekend. I would have added more elements to it, but the park filled up with boy racer shortly after this was shot


Fire Orb Ribbons by Gareth Brooks, on Flickr