Lindsay is the best! Her instruction is clear and concise and her enthusiasm is infectious. I never had much of an interest in portrait photography until I saw her B&H presentation.
Very nice shots, Ms. Adler! As to subject moving during long exposures. In the old days we had special stands with arms and clamps to arrest arms, neck, head, etc. I saw Albert Watson still using that in a recent shoot in one of his videos. Of course that leaves no wiggle room.
Great video and cool images! I've done this drawing things with an LED flashlight, etc., but never tried lighting a scene this way. Really need to give it a "shot". Thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you for this tutorial Lindsay! Since i have an olympus camera i can use the so called live-composite mode, which becomes very handy for this kind of taking pictures.
beautiful images, super cool technique! gonna have to try this out sometime with a willing portrait subject. BTW-Q: what is the name of that very small blower your assistant used from a distance on the models hair near the end of the vid?? seemed to really work pretty well (possibly better/stronger than a small fan??) please if you can find out & answer back ?!!?
New toys are fun aren't they? In the old 4x5 view camera days we used a cheap metal light that you just use a screw in lightbulb, set camera to F22 or up and remove all ambient light and paint away. Great for indoor room shots. This was a good video. It's always fun to experiment.I bet if you added some Fog or Haze that would look cool also.
Waaaayyyyyyy toooooooo muuuuucccchhhhh talking. Over 9½ minutes before the shooting starts. Not the first person on Adorama TV to do this. And with some of that talk being about getting rid of ambient light, even mentioned a laptop, you still have a ton of light coming in. Beautiful results for sure.
Yes, by all means, use a light that's purpose is to be a flash not a constant light source and costs over $2300 with tax, to do light painting when a high output flashlight with a gel (if the color balance is off) costs less than $50.