More Paint

As a follow up to the last post, I thought you might like to see some of the images that I made with my kids doing the painting.

This last image makes me chuckle.  After writing the kids' names for them, Peter wanted to give it a shot.  His first attempt almost completely missed the frame.  This was his second attempt.

When I paint words, normally I write them forwards for me which ends up being backwards in camera.  It's an easy fix in post with a simple horizontal flip, it's usually the first step I take when processing a light painting image with words.

Here's the kicker.  When I pulled this up in Lightroom, the first thing I did was a horizontal flip.  It was then that I realized that it didn't need the flip.  Pete had written it backwards so that it would be frontwards for the camera.

By the way, it says "I Love Lego".  We need to work on his handwriting.

When All Else Fails, Paint

The other night, I took my two oldest kids and we headed out west in an attempt to get a shot or two of the comet, Pan STARRS while there was still an opportunity.  Well, it turns out that the weather had other plans and heavy clouds settled in.  We figured that we should hang out to see how the sunset turned out.  It didn't. The clouds were pretty heavy, so the light fizzled pretty quickly.  What did that leave for us to do?  We painted.

This first image is my favorite form the session.  This was pretty early in the evening, so there was still some good ambient light.  I love the surreal feeling created by the combination of the late evening light and the painted light.  When a photographer friend Peter, who grew up in England, saw this, this was his response: "This image gives me a certain reminder of the south coast beaches in England throughout the 1940's when we were expecting Hitler to invade. They all had various forms of ant-tank and invasion barge defenses plus coils of barbed wire rather like this."  I think he may me on to something.

These next three images are the same image, processed in different ways.  

The kids asked me to write their names for them.

I only had a couple of chunks of steel wool with me, so only a couple of fire images on this trip.

Water Drops

This weekend, I got out my water drop setup and cranked through some shots.  I got some decent results, but I'm just not getting the results I'm looking for.  Time to try changing some things up a bit.

Here's a few of the better results.