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The Secrets of Light Drawing, Revealed! (First Draft)
First, lets watch a 20 second video and compare it to the drawing of the smiling blue octopus a little further down the page.
Can you follow the light as it draws this picture? The artist draws the head first. Observe that she will turn the blue light off and then back on as she draws each leg. She then switches to a yellow light pen to draw the eyes and again to a red pen to draw the mouth. An orange light was shone on her to illuminate the action but not so much as to totally destroy the picture.
The video was taken with a Casio Exilim Z55 point and shoot camera. At the same time, I captured the resulting still picture of the octopus with a Nikon D80 camera.
I think that explains everything, yet I will go on to talk about it for 8 more pages.
Light doodling or light drawing can be described as the simple act of capturing the trace of a narrow moving source of light using long exposure photography, long being defined as seconds or minutes. The moving light source will then appear in the finished picture as more then what actually exists and is truely a representation of time as well as space and movement.
At least that is how I describe what we do. This differs from the common photographic process in which you snap a "still" picture that represents a fraction of a second in our linear time continuum.
This instructable will demonstrate the specific drawing techniques we use in our art. Along the way, I will try to point out other ways to accomplish the same results using different equipment and techniques.
Here is an outline of what you will find in this tutorial:
Camera Equipment and Settings
We are not the first or only people to light doodle. Be sure to check out these other tutorials and examples that cover the same subject.
Write or Draw with Light! Instructable
Now, on to the tutorial. |
