Pictures with bands of awesome lights? How did they do this?

Question

http://s140.photobucket.com/albums/r8/milburnkdr/?action=view&slideshow=true

Look at this slideshow and tell me how they made these pictures. Specifically what kind of light they used... I tried it with a flashlight, but I couldn't get this bright white light they have. Please give me any insight you have.

Answer 1

This is an easy one, it is basically created using a technique called painting with light. Photographers, in particular product photographers use this technique to illuminate very small areas of an object. In fact there is a machine called a Hosemaster (no joke) which is $5000 and lets you paint with a fiber optic wand of light.
I looked at the images carefully and this is how they created the images, and I doubt that they used Photoshop whatsoever(though there is a small chance) because I myself have played around and made far more accurate light trails than these guys.
1. place camera on a tripod or monopod or any stable surface. shut off all lights or at least make them very dim.
2. set camera to either Bulb mode, or shutter priority and set the shutter to a minimum 10 second exposure.
3. begin your exposure
4. immediately discharge your cameras flash (may have to use another cameras flash as some auto cameras dont allow you to do a long exposure and discharge your flash)...if you look at the shadows of the people in these photos only one flash was used. Also if you look at the density of the shadow it reveals that either the lights were totally turned off or they were dim. By discharging the flash you will get your initial exposure of the image.
5. while the shutter is still open and the studio or room is still dark use a LED light or fiberoptic wand to paint in light trails. Anything will work to create the light source.

Answer 2

It depends on the camera. Do you have an SLR? I am not sure of plain point and shoots have the settings needed. Also the first photo where the kid is holding two spray bottles of sort, I got the impression of photoshop. As they need an light source in the first place. However with camera you are having a long exposure. Another clue of them using photoshop is the person would be blured to any movement in a long exposure. With a point and click you can do it in low light conditions and the shutter will stay open until it is satisfied for enough light. Or if you move the camera fast you will get wil streaks of light but you like any other subjects like people in your picture.

Answer 3

Need a DARK room, then simply have your shutter open with an f-stop of maybe 6 or 8 (experiment). Then do your movement with the lights to create the streaks. And when you're done have your flash fire to capture the person, since obviously he/she is not naturally glowing and thus needs to be illuminated.

There is a setting called backfill (and other similar ones) you will want to try. Some point and shoots have this too. The two different kinds either flash first, and then leave the shutter open for a while, OR leave the shutter open for a while and then fire the flash afterwards. I recommend the one that fires the flash at the end.

Answer 4

They appear to be high intensity LED lights. There are a lot of key chains that have them, so you can see the keyhole, in the garage, or at night. Check here: http://www.ledkeychain.homestead.com/ledflashlight.html. Or here: http://www.keychainlight.net/. Or here: http://www.genaldi.com/ledblue.html.

If you want to duplicate the photos, you have to use a long shutter time. Set up the camera to take a 30sec exposure, but with the flash. The LED will not be bright enough to illuminate your body, so after the flash, you have some time to move it around to create the light streaks. Some of the photos look like the LED was on a string or bungee to whip it around.

Finally, it would not be hard to create this type of effect in Adobe Photoshop, so it could be faked.

Answer 5

In its purest form it would be called painting with light. To do that you just need a camera capable of a long (several seconds) exposure, a dark area, and some flashlights. I've had my kids draw smiley faces, write their initials, etc. These photos either have been photoshoped to merge two pictures or the photographer was very clever in his choreography of placing people just after the dark portion of the exposure. My guess in that photoshop was used because matching up things like the end of a light streak and someones hand would be very difficult.

Answer 6

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