The Magic of Light Painting with Tim Cooper
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Tim Cooper, shares tips and tricks to create light painting masterpieces. Painting with light is an exciting and artistic way to portray your subject in a completely unique manner. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Hands-down THE BEST tutorial on light-painting and night photography! So many great tips in here!
Tim is my favorite instructor. He rocks! Thanks B&H and Tim!
This is one of the most intimate Event Lectures I have seen. He really takes the time to discuss in great detail so many of his shots. So much to listen to and so much to see. Love the examples he shows that demonstrate the stages a shot goes through before achieving the desired lighting. Definitely one of my favorites! Now I want to start light painting :)
Thank you, Tim! This was the most comprehensive look at light painting that I have come across. My wife and I are going to the high desert in about a month for three weeks. I want to do milky way/landscape/light painting photos. I've read everything I can about the subject, but your presentation put everything into a much clearer perspective. Thank you, mucho!
Some of the comments here are silly... The folks in the room paid money for this seminar. We are seeing it free on TH-cam. Don't complain about not seeing the pointer, or other such things...
Thanks for sharing this video. Interesting topic and I learned a few things!
Great video with lots of helpful tips! Well done Mr. Cooper! Thank you.
YESS! Another Tim Cooper video. I always look forward to his presentations.
Excellent video, I can't wait to try this and do a painting using this technique., thank you very much for sharing your talents..
Best B and H video so far. Thanks a lot!
Excellent tutorial, Tim! Your coverage was terrific and exhaustive tips showed you definitely know your subject matter, both in theory and actual practice.
What a great tutorial!
I'm just getting started in light painting and this was full of useful tips.
Thanks so much for posting this!
Crazy fantastic expression and explanation of light painting. Thank you Mr Cooper.
Thank you for sharing this tutorial. Very interesting. I am planning in doing this in the summer.
Thanks for watching.
Really a great way to present night pictures and blend art to photography in a unique way, thanks for this wonderful video!.
this is a really great tutorial. Bravo Mr Tin Cooper!
One important note, as a photographer in Denver: If you get your sunset times from the Internet or an app, those times are figured astronomically. In other words, sunset is the moment when the Sun is directly over a line of longitude X degrees West from the line on which you are standing.
The problem, for those of us who live on the Eastern side of a mountain range, is that all of the times assume a flat horizon. In Denver, the listed sunset will be anywhere from 5 to 25 minutes later than the moment the sun actually touches our visual horizon, depending on where it is going down, from left to right.
In addition, with mountains to your West, Civil and Nautical twilights will be shortened, and their times bunched closer together, and the so-called "Blue Hour"? If it happens at all, in Denver, it lasts about five to fifteen minutes, and it never encompasses the whole sky.
Oh man I love this, thanks guys.
I'm heading out for my first light painting night this weekend, this video gave me so many good tips to follow. Many thanks !
Great video, thanks Tim!
That was EXCELLENT - Thank you :)
need to show what you are pointing at. But such a great learning tool and will pass this on to other for sure.
Thanks Mr. Cooper
outstanding lecture suported by several examples...thanks a lot Mr.Copper.
Wonderful presentation! Thank you so much for sharing. Light painting is so interesting.
I find it interesting that my 3 yr old instinctively saw the differences in twilights, or as she put it, sunset, then blue-dark, purple-dark, and black-dark.
Excellent video and a lot of good information. It was very understandable. I think you did answer the question I was having about how to keep yourself out of the picture.
You really need to shoot your long exposure shots with a 2nd camera shooting video of the process. I think it would be fun to see your flashlight running around the frame and then you see the final light painting results. Maybe an IR nightvision camera.
Thanks for that. Just a thought. You are obviously using a pointer in the room but this doesn't show on the video. It would be helpful if we could see what you are pointing at.
Very good video. Thanks for the tips specially the hard light vrs. soft light tip. The information that he gives here is awesome. I have spent a fair amount of time using a flashlight and this video is just going to take me to the next level.
had this on my "watch later" for ages, finally got to enjoy, great class
Thanks for watching!
Sir, you're amazing. Interesting video. Thank you for free tutorial. Your work is awesome.
Thanks for sharing these tips.
Excellent tutorial, thanks!
fantastic lecture,well explained to very minute details.thankyou.
Great love it man😊
Great video and explanation of Light Painting. Some very cool captures of surrounding landscapes of Las Vegas. I'd be interested in knowing the actual technique of you in the field of view when painting. Maybe a short video of you doing it from another camera or something. I may have missed it, but were you in Blub setting the entire time and how was that being controlled? Remote, etc. I will be with a local meet up this Thursday doing light painting but don't' have a remote. Hopefully this won't be too big of a hindrance. Thanks again.
Phooey i think jet black sky adds necessary contrast to make color seem even more vivid matter of opinion though
Crazy- I was just at that house in the 2:00 mark a week ago in Grafton.
Excellent video! It would be extra nice, if there was an equipment list in the video description field.
Get a "practice metronome" app for music set to 60 bpm and count the beeps or clicks during painting to help keep things consistent
I would like to know how to prevent the street lights or other lights in the photo from flaring or blown out with the long exposure to allow everything to brighten up
+Ernest Noeline Make sure you've got the lens' hood applied for this type of work, that's very important in cutting down on flare from prominent light sources. Consider using a multi-coated UV protection filter. The more coatings the filter has the better it will cut down on flaring also. Lastly you could also consider working a Neutral density filter into the exposure which will allow you to expose for longer periods without having the lamps/prominent light sources effecting the exposure as significantly as they do. - Yossi
An important point to shooting starpoints is, that you really need a shorter focallength!!! Because if you take a 14 mm and a 200 mm and shoot them at the same settings then the stars will "streak" faster at 200 mm...
Well.. The focallength is fine.. however... i would always recommend a minimum of 2.8 because to freeze the stars you need as fast a shutterspeed as possible.. Dont know if Samyang lenses fit on a Sony camera? How ever they make some really nice primeglasses for this.. At least for 'Nikon and Canon... The drawback is that they are manuel focus.. but that doens't matter for astrophotography... because you need to manuel focus anyway... But if thats you're only optinion then go for it... but it will mean that you'll need a higher ISO =more noise... Hope my answer makes sence...
regarding how to get ambient exposure, you say to start at 6400 and adjust until you get "it right"? What is "it"? Do you go to Auto setting and see what the camera decides? What constitutes the correct exposure at 6400 ISO?
+Duke Ofhesse - Typically "it" is the exposure you set out for in the first place, i.e. the reason you left the house and the reason you put the camera on the tripod, that vision you anticipated getting prior to taking the first test shot. There's no right answer, just whatever you wanted it to look like. - Yossi
I enjoyed this! But he never talked about his equipment....like what kind of flash lights
Excellent video!! kindly suggest some good flashlight
The LEDLENSER TT LED Flashlight (Black) B&H # LETTFBLK is a great flashlight that is powerful and compact. bhpho.to/2P0FJge
great tutorial and pictures! which flashlight can you suggest? i bought one today but i feel the light's hotspot is too obvious and if i diffuse it it gets too dark.
There's no right or wrong flash light to choose. I would recommend finding a few different types/sizes of flash lights (even cheap ones) to experiment with until you find one that suits your work. It will take some testing (but that's part of the fun of this type of process) to get to know how each may be best used. I would also look for models with the ability to focus the light and spread the width of the beam, this will give you some flexibility in how you get to paint. - Yossi
B and H thanks for the advice, yossi. I already had a lot of fun with the 3$ flashlight i bought, but i'll definitely get an additional (adjustable) flashlight now. I see great hours of light painting in my future ;)
At 14:37 your on screen comment refers to 1 3/4 to 1 1/2 hours after sunrise when it should be "sunset".
Could you give me a tip for a GOOD flashlight for this??? I mean sure the exposure will depend on many different factors, but you must have some experience that will prevent me buying flashlight after flashlight to test. The main question is for sure the luminance followed by maybe the light color/tech. And the reason I would like some tips is so that I do not e.g. get a small under powered pin-light and getting frustrated because it s not possible to put enough light everywhere in 3-5 Mins. Or I buy one that is so powerful that I dont have much control.
Same with light color. E.g. maybe halogen based lights might be warmer then led based lights (ungeled). So should I care about that??
Thanks for the talk. Very interesting.
Will the camera pick up the red light from your headband as you move along?
You turn off all the lights you are not using for the exposure. The headlamp is turned off.
cant believe this has only got 268 likes, .....COME ON, this is a great tutorial, it's cost you nothing, the least you can do is give it a thumbs up to show your appreciation............LET'S SEE SOME CLICKING ..........lolwit
Please is it possible to obtain the translation (french)? Thanks
Thank you for the suggestion. We are always looking for better ways to reach our audience!
Didn't say what kind of a flashlight (what lumen) you're using.
You guys.
is he shooting in raw or jpeg ? i bet those are huge jpeg files
+joels outdoor vlog He would be shooting in the RAW format. For these types of exposures you would want the added shadow and highlight detail shooting RAW would provide. *Andrea
Again at 14:57
Basic light painting
For the moment I`m just playing around with this technique :)
I`ve tried some light painting in my latest photo shoot "Halloween at Sturza mansion" - vizfx.blogspot.ro/2014/10/halloween-la-conacul-sturza.html
Would've been nice if he actually showed video of himself painting and the strategies he mentioned.
I don't get this guy .... pitch black sky is nice ..
sorry.. not impressed at all :/
ultrapsyche sorry, don't care.
we are good then ..