Awesome Light Paintings

If you attach different-weight objects to a string and hang them over a bar, the lighter object can prevent the heavier one from hitting the ground when dropped. As this happens, the rope spirals around the bar. Science teacher Bruce Yeany attached LEDs to the objects and captured long-exposure photos of this fascinating looping pendulum action.

Photographer Darius Twin is an expert at creating long-exposure images and animations like this one. In this 2-minute tutorial, he shows how to make your own light paintings using manual exposures, a shutter remote, and a focused light source. Be sure to check out his YouTube channel for more of his work.

Artist DariusTwin has made some amazing stop-motion animations using point sources of light and long exposures. This short vertical video transports us to a magical, rainbow-filled world set to the tune of the classic song Dream (When You’re Feeling Blue).

You can create some amazing visuals by shooting long exposures. COOPH teamed up with Brazilian artist and photographer Vitor Schietti for a brief series of eight ideas to help up your night time photo and light painting game. We like how he goes beyond through-the-lens techniques and delves into his creative process.

Visual artist Darren “Darius Twin” Pearson is known for his long-exposure light paintings. He has a particular fondness for skeletons. For the short film Fiat Lux, he captured more than 680 hand-painted scenes, then assembled them into an animation. Each of the 11 scenes is also available as an NFT.

Builder Tom Stanton attached a long vertical LED light bar to his drone, and managed to fly it horizontally to capture some cool long-exposure images. His design is based on Ivan Miranda’s light bar, but you might be able to pull off something similar with a Pixelstick.

By using a similar mechanism to the ones used in 3D printers, maker Josh Sheldon created an amazing robotic rig which can be used to guide a light source along a precise path. The result are some of the most beautifully smooth long-exposure light paintings we’ve ever seen.

Long-exposure photographer Darren “Darius Twin” Pearson’s eye-catching clip features a wonderful interplay between its beautiful female star and the lights that gather around her, as she conjures flowers, cacti, stars, and dancing skeletons in the dark of night.

It may take less than seconds to get through the main sequence in Darren and Jordan Pearson’s light painting video, but it took significantly more time, effort, and planning to draw each of its 300 long-exposure frames by moving colored lights by hand.