Comments on: Light drawing and light writing

By: George Black

George Black — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:59:55 +0000

Hi David

Light writing is a large part of WWF’s Earth Hour campaign:

http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/

They are encouraging people to do their own and upload them to Flickr:

http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/how_you_can_help/graffiti/

Regards
George

P.S. Sign up and take part!

By: David Airey

David Airey — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:20:14 +0000

Hi Dape,

These aren’t actually my productions, and I’ve not personally experimented with light-writing. Glad you’re getting good results with your own though. All the best.

By: Dape

Dape — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:16:09 +0000

Hi David I like what you are doing with light exposure even though this was some time ago that you published this blog. The technique is something I used to do years ago but I never pursued it to this level. However I did experiment with layered images with timed exposure which gave good results. I recently was toying with the idea to increase the length of exposure and adding lazer lights between the field of focus, what are your thoughts and what creative work are you doing presently. Regards Dape.

By: Karel

Karel — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:43:29 +0000

Here are some other light-drawing pictures. http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/browse-category.php?s=9 I especially like ‘Gravestone’ and ‘Illuminating straw bales’ pictures

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:36:21 +0000

Go to http://www.myspace.com/lichtfaktor – they’ll be able to answer your questions

By: David Airey

David Airey — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:46:52 +0000

Hi David,

I’ve not done this myself, so can’t help out. Cheers for the visit though.

By: David

David — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:59:18 +0000

This is rad…have you been able to find any information about how to do this with digital video where slowing down exposure is not really an option? I saw this video recently, and its amazing to me…do you have any ideas about how they did this? is this really an animation of stills combined together?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_jOHZ6ktfQ

By: David Airey

David Airey — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:35:09 +0000

Hi Ed,

If you do give it a try, let me know. It’d be great to see your light-writing efforts.

As for the flash-lights (or other tools) that are used, I’m not entirely sure.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:50:01 +0000

I was just thinking about this the other day, i think its an awesome technique, and would love to try it if i had a camera that was capable. Thank you for compiling these links. Im still curious about some of the specifics and logistics. are they using regular flashlights? it must stil be hard to get some of the shapes so perfectly.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:07:19 +0000

Dan, jblu,

Glad you both enjoyed the article. I’d also love to give it a shot, but do need a better camera.