The 20 Awesomest Photos of Light Painting

posted March 8, 2013 by Danny Vega

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Light painting is taking a long exposure using a camera, and then using lasers, LEDs, fire, or any source of light, to 'paint' over the scene. To explain it simply, cameras capture light, and by leaving the sensor exposed with a long exposure time, one can use bursts of light to draw things!

Since the sensor is just sitting there, capturing all the light it sees, you can draw individual lines and shapes, and by doing them one after the other, they will all automatically be captured and added to the same image. It's pretty cool and relatively simple to do, given lights and a nice camera, but some people on the internet, as usual, have gone the extra mile and made light paintings that are more than your average laser pointer smiley face.

The Scary Rainbow Guy

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