Ball of Light Masterclass 

This dude is SERIOUS about orbs. and I love it

Thank you very much for this great tutorial Dennis! It inspires me so I “must” go out soon to try this 😀👍

Fantastic tutorial video and great of you to pass on all your knowledge and experience!!!!! You've inspired me to have a go at this!!!!

I'm only a few minutes into your video, but wanted to stop and say thanks for opening up about and talking about what spinning orbs means to you. After stepping away from learning photography for many years, I've come full circle and now I'm learning everything I can. My focus is travel and landscape -for similar reasons in that it's meditative- also astrophotography and now that I've discovered light painting I'm completely in awe. I look forward to learning everything I can. Thank you for creating your videos.

How kind and thoughtful of you to share your expertise and knowledge with the world! It is a real pleasure watching a person giving inspiration and ideas whilst so many folks just want to take. I will now see just how many orbs I can make within an orb - each to their own!

thats how photography should only be: sharing knowledge :)

Great Masterclass! Thank you!

Thank you for such clear instructions. Very detailed and will save me time in the learning curve. Much appreciated!!!

Cheers Denis, just got into light balls/painting etc. gonna try this tonight

Love this tutorial, so much detail, so much information, I now feel able to give this a shot.

Thanks a lot Denis, I love your tools!

Thanks for a great simple tutorial, great stuff.

love your lessons, i have the hardest time with the wrist movement...oh well practice practice practice

Great tutorial, thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Thanks you for doing this!! I'm excited to try this.

damn the intro is light am hooked

This was an excellent tutorial, thanks.

I'm enjoying this from Adelaide and recognie your images which are in Adelaide too.

Super. At last someone who knows what he's talking about. No Yeao, what up guys, here's how good I am rubbish. Lovely tutorial. Well done.

Very cool images! Thanks for sharing Denis.

This was an excellent in depth tutorial thanks so much for teaching me something new!! 💯👏👏👏

Your personality and your work are fabulous mate... Keep on doing this brilliant work...

Excellent instructions! You really spent time explaining in details. My orbs are always messy and now I know why. I will practice spinning the light before I try again. Thank you.

This is exciting thanks buddy

Great video - the walking backwards bit has made such a difference, it seems more disciplined. Looking forward to part 2.

Thank you very much Denis, looking forward to the orb tool i just ordered and trying this. The video is just what i was looking for :)

Great info Denis, thanks so much, hopefully my orbs will start looking a bit better,

The flour shed ! It's so great to see that place again. Beautiful masterclass, Denis. Peace and light, man ! Big hug from far away. :)

Absolutely bloody brilliant mate, this is truly amazing stuff you got me hooked on doing this now, just gave you 👍 and subscription to watch more fantastic videos. Thank you

soo glad I found this video thank you so much I have just started doing workshops with steel wool,and I myself feel the same as you about being out amongst the world just relaxing and making cool photos

Great video, looking forward to part 2

Thanks so much for sharing I have always wanted to give this a go.

Watching this in preparation for getting my Ball of light from your store. After being a part of the meetup on Saturday night in Adelaide i was amazed by it and can't wait to try some light painting myself

Thank you for inspiring us with this cool art!

Such a great tutorial! I had a go and made some nice glowing balls of string lol but I'm slowly getting them detangled... the main problem I had was because I was doing it alone, I used an intervalometer so I could take longer than 30 second exposures but I had trouble knowing when the shutter was open or not... next time I'll just set a 10 second delay and run back and forth to the camera!

Thank you very much for making this tutorial and for all the good tips. This is indeed a Master class!!! Can't wait to see the second part.

Thank you! Since a road accident in 2004, photography is my therapy. This seems to be another way to escape the mental trauma I go through. I'll be trying your techniques. Subbed btw. :)

Had the pleasure and the privilege of viewing your series at MGA every week as an intern last year Denis. I'm looking forward to getting an email together and be in touch with you quite soon. JT.

(couple yrs late to your party I see) but stil remains a motiavtional video to help me feel like I really could do this. Id sure like to try. Thanks for the confidence builder. Appreciated and glad I found this. I need some motivation or inspiration to get me back into my camera...(instead of a pile of expensive glass just sitting there) Guess they call it a slump? This just might get me off the rusty dusy

Thank is such well detailed and explain

Oh my god, thank you, now I finally know, what causes my double orb!

@14:26 whoever edited this I see you! I love the riser in the music matching with the swinging led passing over the one on the ground! Kudos!!

awesome idea!

Thank you for the instructions, very helpful, i have some practicing to do, but after i tried your method, big improvement, thanks again

Great video Denis thank-you for sharing your extensive knowledge

Great video. Iam gonne try it. Looking for lamp

This is awesome, great video. I was thinking of fire sticks but I think torches sound a lot safer 😅

Hi Denis, thanks a lot for all these good tips and to continue to inspire us!

Thank you for this great tutorial

No bad circles, only happy accidents.You can buy very cheap stones that light in dark. and then you can have multiple places you know where to " do your thing".

Great tutorial! Thank you

your orbits quality, colors and creative locations are something else. we need your instagram handel

amazing! thanks for this.

There's a lot to learn from you

Great tutorial.

great video... with the 2nd 3 dollar light set up that doesn't have an off switch in the other hand... how do you end the exposure without making a streak of light moving away from the orb?

I use a small glow in the dark star for a reference point.

loved that lots of great points to practice, thank you. I cant find part 2 though? Is it called "ball of light masterclass part 2" or something else?

Im the 1000th sub. Good videos.

Did you say you are using Olympus cameras? I was interested in what model you recommend. Thanks for the very thorough tutorial!! je

Were can I buy that little light on the ground? That is a good idea. Thank you

Good techer

My camera has only 30sec ..how can I make it 60sec shutter open

sensacional meu amigo parabéns pelo canal

Gyroscopic effect doesn’t want to allow the spinning circle to turn. The requirement of forcing it to turn influences your spinning technique to keep the circle vertical. A rigid vertical gyro, when forced out of it’s running axis, will climb right out of vertical. That might be why you can’t walk forward without changing other bits of technique.

Hey there, what a great tutorial, thx! What kind of light did you use during this instructionvideo?

Hi. I liked the videos tutorial. One question , have you ever tried in a waterfall or any place where the ground isn't flat enough to move around ? I'm curious.

Great tutorial! Thanks. One thing: do you use Live Comp on your Olympus camera? If not, why not?

*good job bro*

Just a thought from someone who isn't a photographer but who watched the video for the effect shown in the thumbnail. I'm sure over the years you may already have thought of this and dismissed it but in your search for creating a constant circle to eliminate "loose strands" in the finished effect, is it not possible to adapt a mechanical device (such as a drill) which would turn in an almost perfect radius everytime, then you'd just need to work out how to rotate the drill to give the full orb effect? Just a thought, please forgive me if I'm missing something basic. Enjoyed the video though.

The ambient light on the sensor got to be proportional to the area of the lens opening and shutter speed (i.e. proportional to shutter speed * (pi /4) * aperture**2) which includes your artificial light. In your case that includes the bulb light. The aperture (i.e. the lens opening) controls the depth of field wrt the point in focus. Hence, a smaller opening (e.g. f8) with 60s timing should get you a better looking ball than a wider opening lens (e.g. f1.8). Perhaps your way of thinking give you a better grip on doing these kind of shots...

thanx master

Love it. But what about an iPhone 13 Pro Max? Can you still do it.

Excellent presentation, thank you for sharing your knowledge. ..... When you said you sometimes have an exposure of up to three or four minutes to capture the ambient light, are you spinning the ball of light for all of that time? Or switching the light off and moving out of shot after, say, 2 minutes?

超棒的教學

Great tutorial, but where is part 2? I can't find it.

TKS very good vidéo

Hey let's say I have a bride and groom that want a orb around them how would I go about doing this around 2 people?

Amazing!!!! Please what remote control was that you have?

This is a fantastic video. My only hope is you have the permission of the photographers whose work you featured and haven't simply just credited them. I can see how meditative it can be and look forward to starting it.

Nice video..it helped a lot...but toward the end the music at around 40 minutes was REALLY irritating...

Thanks Denis that was great Job i just wonder what type of light at ground? is it custom light or something can be bought from Electronic shop?

I've tried a few before watching this video. Thanks for the tips! One thing you didn't mention, and maybe it isn't a problem if you do it right, is because of gyroscope p recession (I think) my nodes, top and bottom, are not exactly above each other, but the top node is off to one side. Any ideas about that, or do I just need more practice?

I’m very tempted to try an aluminum arm in a cordless drill with a governed trigger......with, of course a perfectly balanced counterweight and perfect 90 degree chuck stub. Cheating ?? I don’t care. If any of you beat me to it, and you probably will, please let me know if it works.

Where is a good place to find ball tools

i am trying to figure out what i will need this for

Why did you not show where to get the tool

Has your orbing given you a Rafa Nadal style arm mutation?

How can I create this with a iPhone

"Just leaving the natural momentum of the head work it's good. Obviously if you slow down too much the head's gonna go sloppy, it's gonna go drop around and it's not gonna work. It's in the balance. Leave the momentum of the head to keep it upright." Sounds like a blue pill might be a solution if one can't keep up with the momentum. Oh right, we're supposed to be serious... sorry.

зачем делать 43 минуты, сразу было понятно как это делается, когда увидел что крутится свет рукой.

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too much unnecessary information and annoying background music in this video