Light painting

ham_n_mustard

Anybody else fool around with light painting? I love spinning steel wool, and using fibre optic cables to paint.
If so, where do you do it? What sort of tools do you use? Bought or homemade?

This one was made with steel wool and some magnesium ribbon, set on fire, spun around in a metal whisk on a length of wire.

OldGoat

I play around with it a lot. It's the pyro in me
I've used all sorts of lamps, torches, strings of fairy lights, home made light-bars, jury rigged and gaffa-taped monstrosities of shaped acrylic sheeting that would probably kill someone if it fell on them...and still my favourite, the oul sparking wire wool.
I'm always on the lookout for anything that is reflective or refractive that might produce some interesting light.
I tend to use them on the seafront most often as I am working on reflections though I have created puddles in urban settings, under bridges etc., to 'shape' the spark showers. For me the most enjoyable compositions are set in the blue hour, urban lighting way off in the background and a sphere reflected in very shallow water. The orange of the sparks and of the city lights are wonderful against the dark blue of the twilight.

ham_n_mustard

OldGoat wrote: »

I'm always on the lookout for anything that is reflective or refractive that might produce some interesting light.

Hmm.. Hadn't thought of refractive! Cheers 🙂