25 Amazing Light Painting Images

Light painting, also known as light drawing or light graffiti is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with hand-held light sources. The first known photographer to use this technique was Man Ray in his series "Space Writing" created in 1935. The photographer Ellen Carey discovered Man Ray's signature signed by penlight nearly 74 years after the pictures had been taken.

Light painting photography is a relatively new technique and came to popularity thanks to photography sites such as 1x and Flickr, and now has entire sites devoted to the light painting photography technique.

RGB UFOs by Jeffrey Sullivan

Love At First Light by flatworldsedge

Light Painting Daddy by Gessman

Swansong of a 350D by Ian Hobson

Running & Swinging with Fire by alexkess

LAPP-PRO Light Painting Photography 1

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One by The Outdoor Illum

Bright Inflorescences 2 by Garu-Garu

Antiparticle by tcb

Race of the Ribbons by Pikebubbles

Still Got the Blues by jannepaint

I’m the spirit of your dirty dishes by Math

Reflected by Ben Matthews

Electric Guitar by Rogers1

Deadly Angel by Tom Patson

Light It Up by Bart T

Chicken by Chernega

Angry by Oh Hector

Thermodynamic Engineering by Dennis Calvert

Light Painting by Rafoto

The Light Painter’s Dance by Fort Photo

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