Lessons
Class Introduction: What is Light Painting?
03:45 2Camera Considerations
16:18 3Camera Settings and Initial Exposures
09:26 4Light Painting Accessories
04:05 5The Color of Light
05:21 6Focusing in the Dark
03:13 7Light Painting Techniques
08:30 8Lightroom: Basic Panel
14:14Lightroom: Presence Panel Adjustments
06:05 10Lightroom: Hue, Saturation, Luminance
05:17 11Lightroom: Local Adjustments
16:46 12From Lightroom to Photoshop
11:55 13Photoshop: Lighten Blending Mode
04:31 14Photoshop: Star Stacking
03:17 15Photoshop: Layer Opacity
03:25 16Photoshop: Selection and Masks
05:55 17Photoshop: Mask Adjustments
05:46Lesson Info
Light Painting Accessories
so late. Painting accessories. As I said earlier, Uh, the cool thing about late painting is we don't need a ton of gear. Now, I know I have a bunch of things laid out here, but don't get overwhelmed. We don't need a whole lot to get started in light painting. Of course, the most important thing that you're going to consider is your flashlight. There's plenty good flashlights on the market, but I gotta tell you, I love these coast flashlights. Uh, right here, we've got the hp seven are We've got the hp five, these air flashlights there, my everyday flashlights. It's what I use them all the time. So typically, what light painters will have is, you know, a syriza flashlights running from, you know, very, very low powered ones to very high powered ones. And these are the two I use again. The HP five in the HB seven. This is my every day we're course, the more powerful one, and I will use this for painting. Very close subjects are very small subjects because the beam is significantly eyes s...
ignificantly less powerful. Now, the other neat thing about these flashlights is you get these little rubber hoods for them. And what you can do in the rubber hood is you can actually put a filter. So here you can see we've got several different filters. We've got reds and greens and yellows. When I want to change this flashlight to a, uh you know, being from an led to a nice warm light, you just grab a little gel. Put that in there. You're gonna slide that right into this rubber hood here, and it slides right on top, and suddenly your flashlight is jelled. It's just that easy. And I think that's a really super cool feature. If you really get into different types of light pain and there's lots of different ways you can do it. My approach is, ah, a little bit more straightforward and classic, illuminating the scene, and we'll talk about my approach just a little bit. But when you start getting other things, you could get into what's called like writing and for light writing, you're going to well, I mean, the simplest thing would be pointing the flashlight at the camera and drawing, you know, and you could just draw whatever sort of shapes you want. This is not something I do a lot of, but there's a great company called light painting Brushes like painting brushes dot com. And they make all of these really cool instruments and their ton of fun. So they all kind of hinge around this little rubber. Uh, I'm not even sure what they call it, but, ah, I called a snoot and you can see it's got threads in here. It's got threads on one end and it's got threads on the other end, and the larger end will fit on most flashlights, even this very large coast. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna attach that and just kind of shove that on there. Now, at this point, it's working as a snoot, which for me has largely replaced the old paper towels in it that I used to Yes, um, so it works well for that, but it works in concert with these other cool options, so notice that this has threads. This has threads, and we can thread this in here. And when she thread that in there, then the only light that's gonna come through is through this little beam. In the end, let's see what else we have in table here, of course. Last but not least when I know shooting timed exposures. So we can't just press the button and run. So we need a cable release. Um, I particularly like this Velo shutter boss. Um, there's lots of these on the market. This is not overly expensive, and it does the job perfectly at half the cost of of some of the manufacturing models. One thing you might want to do is put a little gaffer's tape over the red light that comes in a corner that usually blinks in some ways that can help you find your tripod again. Believe me, that's not a bad idea if you lose it in the dark. So again, it looks like a lot. But if you guys break it down, what I'm really, truly carrying with me two flashlights, cable release, couple filters and a snoot, and that's it. So we're taking all this away. This is what goes inside my camera bag. People all right, pretty easy, self contained, not much to add to your bag to create limitless possibilities out in the field.
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