I went out the other day with Brent and some friends to try some light painting on actual live models.

We combined flash with torches and got very cool results from it. Brent (http://brentbat.wordpress.com) had pre-visualized the shot and we set it up to what he reckoned was very close to the shot that he had in his head.

Together with Oat (www.hangingpixels.com) who kindly provided the Pocket Wizards, flashes, umbrellas and the model, we had a very capable team on this shot and it was a lot of fun to combine the different aspects of lighting.

Fortunately Brent had a video camera and we all took turns filming.
Thanks to Brent’s video editing skills, this video has become awesome and shows you what it was like.

Click here to watch the video

We headed out to Malabar the other weekend to shoot those funky bunker graffitis.
Brought our whole set of light painting tools:
Torches, celophane, more torches, neon lights, electric luminescent lights, hair spray…

Hair Spray…?
Yes, and a lighter.

Makes for a perfect little flame thrower. Every boy knows that, right?

Brent went inside with it and gave the rusty window a cooking.
This shot is layer-blended out of 8-9 exposures. One for the outside lighting, one for the inside lighting (each floor one exposure), one for the burning window,…

A photography like that can take you 2 hours easily. It is amazing how time consuming night photography is. Especially the kind that we are doing. This is good though, it makes you think about your composition a lot more. The only problem is, when you come home and you really wish you had tilted the camera just a tiny notch more, or zoomed just that little bit more out. Oh well, there is always another day