Light Painting Tutorial: Start to finish! 

Great tips. I was never interested in light painting, until now. So I would have never thought of moving far left, then far right, then down low, or highlighting texture at an angle.

I enjoy both your video explanations and how to do the light photographing, and your enthusiasm. It’s contagious and motivating to us (your followers). Looks like quite an interesting place to visit and photograph. Thank you Jim.

Great video,learned a lot. Thanks for posting.

Excellent, Great Tips!

Awesome Tutorial! Nice result. Thanks!

Thank you. Loved it!

Jim, thanks for the lesson! Great tips. Glad to see you putting that drone to use you are always talking about on the podcast!! 👍🏻📷

Awesome video. Sounds like fun. I hope to try it out. Thx Cheers

Great tutorial, Thank You.

Thanks for these priceless tips

Great instructions, thanks dude for sharing

Thank you ! I learned a lot.

Good tutorial thanks for making it

Thank you! It's amazing how you give so many information in a single and short video.

Really good tutorial thank you!

Great infö and demonstrations!

Great lesson Jim. Watching this on St Patrick's Day just feels right.

Thank You. I heard the term light painting alot but never tried it. Your approach and explanation in this video inspired me..

Great video, thank you man!

A very interesting and educative tutorial. I'm interested in starting outdoor light painting photography and the information given here is crucial. Thank you for taking the time and sharing.

very good video. Thanks

Nice job! You explain things clearly and succinctly.

Great!

Great job explaining all the steps !

I have read an entire book on light painting.....this explains in 10 minutes the true secrets and strategies to get it right....Thank you so much

Thank u ~ REALLY EXCELLENT VIDEO !!!!

I am going to do a light painting experiment using Xavier Nuez as inspiration. What flashlight do you use/recommend? Also do you just recommend just cellophane sheets to cover the flashlight for colored light paint?? Thanks!

Very usefull, thank you !

I live up the road from the wonderful barn

A very nicely explained thoroughly. I enjoyed it so much that I to am thinking of lightpainting now. I live in Ireland but never came across this barn? Could you please tell me where it is and if you know its name or where its near. Regards. Mike

There are great photographers, and there are great photographers who can also TEACH! You do both exceedingly well and have quickly risen to the top of my most-appreciated and watched channels! Thanks from Minneapolis, MN! (kudos also for the drone shots - I'm a pilot myself!) Jim

Thanks

This is a very useful tutorial - thank you s much! It would be really nice to see a tutorial on how you created the final picture in photoshop - Learning how you did the masking and blending of the different exposures would be very interesting.

Just a small correction regarding the inverse square law, at double the distance there will only be a quarter of the light available (see comment at time 4.15 ish)

I got a lot from that, thanks mate ... tomorrow night my brother's yard, big bush block so I guess I am going to fail but learn :)

Inverse square law: intensity varies inversely as the square of the distance. I. e. If you multiply the distance x 2, then light intensity varies by 1/2 squared = 1/4.

Super lesson. Thank you :)

what light do you use for light painting

I really enjoyed this! Thanks for sharing it and walking through the process. Makes me want to try it now. Also does it matter what type of flashlight you're using?

I am wondering the same thing as Loretta Habig. How different would it be using an older incandescent flashlight vs a new LED white light flashlight. Regarding an LED, what lumen strength is good or too much? Loved the tutorial. Definitely makes me wanna go out & try some painting for myself.

Where is the camera throughout the shoot? Does it stay in one spot or are you moving it to other spots? Really good tutorial!

Thank you VERY much!. I enjoyed immensely and hope to achive good results with your lesson.

Live about 20km from the Barn - must pay a visit 👌

So it’s recommended to use Photoshop to merge different images instead of just using bulb mode and carefully painting for up to 5 minutes?

Good video, thank you. Just one thing though, at 4.17, I believe the inverse square law gives you 1/4 light amount when doubling the light distance from the subject. Not double distance 1/2 the light, double distance 1/4 the light.

Is it not "every time the distance doubles the light quarters"? Great video

Great job of explaining in a short amount of time. I think that the fill is a little too bright. But what the hell do I know? I've only been doing photography for 50+ years.

I have one question as a newbie with that photography subject. Is this better to use flashlight on monopod, wireless connected to camera or flashlight as you using. I discover that with your source of light is much easier to start and see how the light 'flows'. You can actually paint with that like using brush. When on the opposite way you have short but stronger amount of light and it's harder to see or imagine how it will be. My question is. Which idea is more efficient if we talk about getting more experience in this subject. Great video, you explain everything very easily. Thank you so much:)

Couple of things: How do you adjust for the color temperature of the light? Your flashlight looked like an LED source. I'd think an incandescent flash light would cast a warmer light. Do you correct in camera or in photoshop? Both? I also caught the comment on the inverse square rule (04:15) "every time your distance doubles your light roughly cuts in half". Wouldn't that be "your light roughly cuts down to a fourth"? And while we're on this topic, I wonder since the light source would be only 1/4 as intense on a subject who's distance has doubled, the reflection back to the camera, what the camera records, would fall off again as the subject's (now the light source) distance has doubled again back to the camera. So you get 1/4 the intensity at the subject and then 1/4 of 1/4 (1/16) of the intensity back at the camera. Then I suspect the sensor is not really a linear device when it comes to intensity - the probably have some kind of sensitivity curve. Anyway, at the end of the day, the science only supports the art - a good photo stands on it's own - and I really do appreciate what your doing to help us with our art!

Very informative tutorial...... all is easy till you mentioned the need for post process and edit work. Computers baffle and scare the hell out of me..... I don't own any editing software - just looking at all those buttons sliders menus and strange icons short circuits my old brain . 💥

The simple way is rent a sun and a softbox twice as large as the building

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Really nice tutorial! Thank you!