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Light painting, Light trails or light drawings are all different names for making art with light. technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source while taking along exposure photograph, either to illuminate the photograph or create more light.
Exposure - The amount of light in one area, the image plane illuminance times the exposure time) reaching a photographic film or electronic image sensor, as determined by shutter speed, lens aperture and scene luminance.
~ Using hand held lights, to illuminate parts or colour parts of the scene, requiring a slow shutter speed.
~ Can be Created using a webcam, where the image can already be seen using a monitor or projector.
Exposure - The amount of light in one area, the image plane illuminance times the exposure time) reaching a photographic film or electronic image sensor, as determined by shutter speed, lens aperture and scene luminance.
~ Using hand held lights, to illuminate parts or colour parts of the scene, requiring a slow shutter speed.
~ Can be Created using a webcam, where the image can already be seen using a monitor or projector.
Light writing graffiti artist Lichtfaktor is a collective of talented individuals based in Germany, they are Marcel Panne, David Lüpschen, and Tim Fehske. Lichtfaktor was formed when Marcel was asked to create a video projection project for "Deutscher Ärzte Verlag" that would show “Energy in Motion”, he brought David and Tim and that was when Lichtfaktor was born. The group’s lightwriting style is heavily influenced by their backgrounds as street and graffiti artist. They are well known for their graffiti light painting style as well as their several stop animation light painting films. Lichtfaktor has produced animations for commercial clients including work for telecommunication company TalkTalk. They find inspiration in graffiti, street art, and in others light painting work. Lichtfaktor says that they enjoy the contrast from using different light sources to create their images. They plan out most of their work but do find inspiration on location. When asked if Lichtfaktor thinks Lightwriting is an evolution of graffiti they say this “For us it is an evolution and a chance to animate graffiti characters in urban landscapes. But in general we would say that graffiti is graffiti and light graffiti is light graffiti.”