Light painting, or light graffiti as it is sometimes referred to, is a new frontier in creative photography. This is a growing trend on Flickr and other photo sharing sites. Often using extreme values for shutter speed (including keeping the shutter open indefinitely), light emitting objects become the paint brushes on a photographer’s canvas.
Photographers utilize their knowledge of the different colors produced by various lights, and how they interplay with white balance settings. Light paint brushes can be as simple as a flash light, laser pen, old lantern, or even off-camera flash combined with colored gels. Literally anything which emits light can be used as a paint brush.
Bugatti Veyron by Mark Brown
No One Will Believe You by Dennis Calvert
Circle8
Torchlight Parade
Lisa by Wes Whaley
Fireboy by David Schlaich
Light Painting Bike by Sssampo
Antiparticle by tcb
Skateboarder by Andy Hemingway
