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Orbs – Light Painting Photography Tutorial
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thank you. I bought your book and loved it/
wow! that's so cool!
Fairy lights
thnx man! good work!!
is it steel wool attached to a rope?
Don't even bother trying to spin them like this, make a device.
a kids light up spinning top toy?
Great video, Evan. I'm a little late to the party but thanks man, very much appreciated 🙂 p.s. Subbed, obviously.
You used hula loops of different sizes with leds on them
He's cute, really good tutorial too
my guess for the last pic is a kids totem tennis pole with string and led
light on a stick, twirlled in different places, covering your lense inbetween the indiv. swirls………do I win the prize? I have had really good results w/ your tutorial on the cds w/ water droplets. can't wait to try more, this looks fun
you hung the led lights on a pole and push them down from top and they swirl around the pole giving that effect
how do it in the camera 700d eos t5i please help
you are using joysticks to do an orb that ps paste and copy…
You made one or two light painting orb and then keep copying it and pasting it in the picture.
But one question how did you remove your body out of the shot ?
key chain with an led
a light a pole and you wrap the lights around the pole and let it unwind am i right i hope so. fantastic video i will try some very very soon thank you
Dude!! Your work is so freaking amazing! I love it!!
the last photo was taken with two lights one at each end of a stick … right?
Really beautiful photos!
can you tell me pls haow you merged the 4 photos in photoshop,many thanks
spinning top
Im going to say the last photo was made using a cordless drill, a piece of string and then an LED on the end. The drill would be turned on and the light would spin in a small circle and gradually increase as it is lifted up higher. Then the drill woulr be turned off and the circles would get smaller. That's my guess…
Hey !!you're Awesome…captured on a road….!!!!!
I'm going to guess that it was a strand of lights that you weighted down near the bottom and then you held it out in front of you and twirled it around and around..Kinda like you did the other ones, but this one was latitudinal instead of longitudinal . Hope this makes sense. 🙂
Wait, 2:00am in the MORNING?!
Just getting started and your video work is VERY helpful!
It maid with fairy light (a long with battery pack) LEDs to a hula hoop and spin it between your hands when a long exposure is taking place…
Hi everybody, does somebody have any idea about the kind of LED device used at http://youtu.be/asx13Ah_xpk?t=3m51s (the red ribbon) ?
Big thanks !
These look like lights attached to beach balls. I can't figure out whether you had several balls (which could give a cool "overlapping" effect). or one, but balls usually can't spin as easily as something on the end of a wire or string or a hoop. How do you get multiple shots? Multiple exposures on a tripod? Resetting the timer moves the camera, so there is often blurring of the image. Advice?
You used a pole with a string with a small LED light and spun it around the pole
Hula-hoops!
thanks for the tips 🙂 I found some xmas lights
For last snap I think you used hula hoop ring or something like that. You stick the LEDs on the rings and then spin it around the central vertical axis. And if I am not wrong you just spin it repeatedly in clockwise and then anti clock wise direction only up to 180 Degree rather the 360.
How to get yourself into the picture?
Great videos, youre a very good teacher!
you got a stick and put a string and rapped it up and put fire on the end and then it spun
fire