Painting With Light
During our month together in Gokarna – a little beach town about 3 hours South of Goa – my dear friends, Oliver and Joni and I did a lot of collaborative art. Mostly, we'd sketch throughout the day, switching papers between the 3 of us, each adding a bit at a time. It was incredibly inspiring and creatively nourishing.
We eventually had the brilliant idea to experiment with drawing together in an entirely different way. With the beach as our backdrop, Oli and Joni illustrated with colorful lights while I did my best to record their movements on camera. Having no tripod with me, it took a lot of tries before we achieved anything good. Most of it was just scribbled swashes of blurred light, but – towards the end – we'd found our flow.
These are my favorites from our final session. In the first one, I love how the sand around them is blurred from their movements. I also find it quite hilarious that Oli managed to create a creepy-looking, ghosted image of his face on his abdomen. The second one feels so calm in comparison, and – to my eye – looks much like a skull and brain, complete with ears and a spinal cord.
lens: 35mmf1.4L Prime
specs: ISO 125 - f5.6 - 15 sec , handheld
date: 12 March 2010
Beautiful Photo! I can see three faces in the first picture. That had to be a Satisfying Experience!
Thank you! It was satisfying and nerve-wracking all at once! Holding myself and camera reasonably still for 15 seconds was hard – had to hold my breath a lot! But I was stoked with the end results, for sure. :)
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How did you make the light @zipplyo?
They were literally drawing around themselves, making patterns and shapes with small lights – holding a different colored light in each hand. There was no plan or structure to it, just – 15 seconds of experimentation and curiosity about how it would turn out. :) It was a lot of fun!
Of course it's fun.)
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A remarkable post. You must be enjoying your visit to Goa, a lovely place on our planet. That it stirs your collaborative creativity even better. Great result and you could read anything into either of the pictures. Thank you and enjoy the rest of your visit.
Thanks @jvalentine! I've never been to Goa, itself, and these photos were taken in 2010. Soooo – unless time travel soonly becomes possible – I won't be 'enjoying the rest of my visit' anytime soon! ;) Glad you like the photos, regardless.
Here's to your visit then and I did enjoy the photos, very creative.
Really nice long exposure. I've tried light painting like this...never got anything good. Nice work.
Thanks @jfolkmann! I haven't done it again – this really was a spontaneous collaboration – but I'm sure I'd enjoy trying it again sometime.
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This is pretty cool, have you seen the pixel stick light used for long exposure light painting its pretty cool, haha you'd think i'm a salesperson for them but cool photography :)
These lights were something similar – though very cheaply made! If I recall correctly, we found them in some local shop for a small amount of rupees. • And, thank you. ;)