I absolutely LOVE this light painting animation for the talk talk advert. The movement of the lights to create different shapes is just brilliant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm5_Y6OvcS0

STREET LIGHTS AND CAR LIGHTS.

To change it up a bit from using just normal flashlights, sparklers and what not. I decided to try something different so i started photographing the street lights in town and passing cars. Here are some of the images...

For this last image i set the camera on the barrier of a bridge facing down at the roads so it would pick up the movement of the car lights. I thought this was very interesting as it was almost a form of controlled light movment. The light on the cars is controlled as the car follows the roads in different directions.

WORKING WITH FOIL

After making the sparkler out of foil, i decided to keep working with foil as i think it is interesting the way it reflects light. Many different shades can be created with foil depending on the way light is shining on it.

To test this i made this ..





I bent the foil in different direction and scrunched the foil and when moved about or when light is shone on it from different angles it changes and different areas of the piece light up.

You can see how the image changes as different sections of it light up each time.

MORE MOVING LIGHT

The next thing i wanted to do was look at different forms of moving light.


I was happy to get my hands on some sparklers as i knew these would make interesting images as it is very different to what i was using which was just simple lines of light.
Here are some of my sparkler paintings..


Simple hand drawing

Putting the sparklers onto the bicycle wheel and spinning ..

Random shapes

From the results i really liked the effect of the sparkler to show light movement.

Some work i did after working with sparklers..



I love the effect the sparkler makes and the way lines of light spread out in different directions. I decided to make something that could show this effect and i thought the best material to use was foil as it is very reflective.

Heres my 'foil sparkler'.

I then tested it by shining light on it and moving about and i wanted to see if it could create the effect of the sparkler and i was really happy with the results.

 

Next up i just got a bit of string .. tied some lights to it ..moved them around in different waysnand photographed the movements...

That last experiment reminded me of wheels spinning so i decided to put lights on bicycle wheels and then have a little cycle..photographing the movement of course.

THE RESULT OF DIFFERENT MOVEMENTS OF LIGHT

I wanted to start looking at different movements of light. To do this i have photographed different forms of moving lights to see what shapes and movements would be created

• SPINNING

To record this movement i wanted to make something that could shine light and also spin at the same time. I used a tube and drilled out several holes. The light would be shone in each end of the tube and i hoped the cut out circles would light up and be used to create the circular shapes.

This was the 'tool' i made for this.

Also to make it a bit more interesting i added colour by using the sweet wrappers once again.


And here were the results..

Lit up..

And SPIIIIIIIIIIIINN..

I switched around the colours to add versatility.



I then took a picture of all of the colours in the one.

And then to add more movement i moved it around to create these effects..

I havn't done  post in a while. I guess im not very good at this blogging thing. But i'm going to post up all the work i've done now.



PAINTING AND WORK AFTER LOOKING AT LIGHTS.

• White Light

• Colour