Laser Light Painting Photos

[NOVADan]

Hey Guys,

So I'm sure most of you have seen the fad going around the internet of Light Painting. Most people use LED Lights and Glow Sticks, but as many of you know, Lasers work great too! So I did some photos, and I'm looking forward to trying more with different colours (and more people.) Here's some photos...

We're going to be adding more photos to our Flickr page if you want to check that out, there's already a selection of photos uploaded.

[link]www.flickr.com/photos/novalasers[/link]

I'd love to read your comments, and if you have any suggestions for more photos let me know! ;D

Dan

 

[RobTheVIP]

Very nice, but you must tell me how you did the swirl

 

[RobTheVIP]

Oh yes, I do have one suggestion. Make a section on your site so people can see other peoples submitted videos/pictures!

 

[LaserNoob]

NICE! How to do this stuff? looks really cool.

 

[Laq]

NICE! How to do this stuff? looks really cool.

Fully agree, looks awesome ! really like to know how to make those

 

[Aseras]

setup a digital camera, set it to manual exposure and crank up the exposure time to 10-30 seconds ore more and start drawing with the laser.

 

[Things]

man that those are awesome!! hmmmm to bad my camera doesn't have long exposure

 

[NOVADan]

setup a digital camera, set it to manual exposure and crank up the exposure time to 10-30 seconds ore more and start drawing with the laser.

Yup, that's how you do it. But for a couple of photos above I used a modified Diffraction Grating to create a glow from my Laser Pointer that I used as a brush to paint images. But using just the laser beams creates an awesome and very different effect like the bottom photo. If you have a manual camera you should definitely give it a try.

Thanks for the comments everyone! ;D

Dan

 

[LaserCo]

These are very cool, great job!

 

[Comidt]

Wow, very nice work dude!

 

[timelord]

I've yet to try this painting lark I know you need at least 7secs exposure time to do this and obviously it must be done whilst it's dark....

 

[Greenie]

Great job on the pics.