light painting

melekalikimaka

anyone tried this out? i'm considering a wee project on it, especially round light stencils. trying it out just there, its alot of bloody prep work, any tips from folk?

dan759

Hey, I like the idea! I was thinking about this the other day, Though the way i planned on trying to do it was to have 3 different colours make the one stencil. The way in lino printing you have 3 different cut outs of the image and fill it with colour, then when all 3 come together it takes the form you planned for it. Yours being the portrait.

I like the idea, Just for a first shot i would have had a more close up shot of the stencil. Just to show exactly what it is you are doing. Its a bit lost in the garden.

I do like it though Im glad to see it is possible! When i explained the idea to one of my classmates they looked at me like i had 4 heads!! :pac:

melekalikimaka

its half a4 size at the moment, building a softbox mount for a4 sheets the moment for it, not fun

dan759

Indeed! Loads of work to get that kind of shot right.

I have some light painting stuff on my flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34002339@N02/

Maybe have the portraits floating around a room rather than outside?

Oh, I just looked at your flickr. I prefer the other one you did outside! :rolleyes:

melekalikimaka

yeah inverted the stencils, in my head the way i had the first one made sense, but didnt really work out. doing a project for college on it i think, i know its reasonably possible now, working on the other light gizmos now

<looks at bike and bag of battery powered leds...>

dan759

Which college are you in?

Yeah the stencil seems like it might take a while to get it the way you want. I know its gonna take me a good few trys anyway!

Where do you get your leds? :P So far all mine need to be either plugged in, or attached to some form of pen contraption. I'm trying to find a set of portable LEDs for one of my new projects to make some really cool looking designs.

melekalikimaka

dan759 wrote: »

Which college are you in?

Yeah the stencil seems like it might take a while to get it the way you want. I know its gonna take me a good few trys anyway!

Where do you get your leds? :P So far all mine need to be either plugged in, or attached to some form of pen contraption. I'm trying to find a set of portable LEDs for one of my new projects to make some really cool looking designs.

christmas, i stocked up. going hunting for glowsticks tomorrow. i'm gonna try printing on photo paper, two pages
over lay them perfectly, and hope that suffices, got another stencil, with my 'tag' in the pipework, my flickr avatar. i'm in gcd. you?

dan759

Ahh.. im going mad looking for battery powered LEDS. Might just take some wire cutters to the christmas lights and see what i can make do!

I'm actually not in a college at the minute. Just a PLC. I'm submitting a portfolio for DIT this week.. Fingers crossed :eek:

I tried glowsticks before, i always thought they were a bit too faint. Check these out if your thinking of ordering online!
http://www.elightbulbs.com/Energizer-Eveready-06004-GLO3BUBP-LED-Flashlight

melekalikimaka

dan759 wrote: »

Ahh.. im going mad looking for battery powered LEDS. Might just take some wire cutters to the christmas lights and see what i can make do!

I'm actually not in a college at the minute. Just a PLC. I'm submitting a portfolio for DIT this week.. Fingers crossed :eek:

I tried glowsticks before, i always thought they were a bit too faint. Check these out if your thinking of ordering online!
http://www.elightbulbs.com/Energizer-Eveready-06004-GLO3BUBP-LED-Flashlight

check out pound shop bike lights and camping shops, some cheap lights, then some gels over the light

Chorcai

I can get my hands on some UV lights, what would that turn out like ?

melekalikimaka

pretty awesome i imagine

dan759

I'd say UV lights would be pretty cool alright!