Topic: Light graffiti

[idolminds]

I saw a page the other night that had a lot of cool examples of this. Basically, you take a long exposure photo and move lights around while its being taken. Doing this, you can make words or pictures in light. I wanted to try this last night, but got into FFXII and sorta forgot. And tonight its raining, so I can't really do it outside. So I did a test photo facing the mantle. While it was still light out. And hey, it still worked!

[TheOtherBelmont]

That's cool man, I love that stuff.  What kind of light did you use?

[Quemaqua]

Haha, kickass!  All the photos you shared with me the other day were great.  Can't wait to see you try some more.

[idolminds]

Belmont, I just used a cheapy flashlight. I also tried using a laser pointer to draw on stuff, but it didnt look good with as much light as I had. Has to be really dark for that.

[Antares]

When I took photography in high school, a guest student teacher came in and showed us a little bit about doing this kind of thing.  You can also get a cool effect if you have a portable flash by walking around and setting it off in different locations.  In a very dark room it would be the only illumination and you can get very interesting illumination.  I've always wanted to try it, but never have had a good camera that can take a long exposure.

[Xessive]

Sweet!

[Ghandi]

Cool stuff. There was a commercial a few months ago that used the same effect

[Quemaqua]

Yeah, it was a couple commercials.  Ironically for some stupid cell phone company.  They were cool, though.

EDIT - found 'em!

This one establishes the concept ...
 ... then this one does something awesome with it.

[ren]

do me do md

[Cools!]

It's called "light painting". It's a cool technique.