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My introduction to light painting came in a seven page feature article by Gary Aro Ruble in the July 1974 issue of Popular Photography on “Power Flicks”, the innovative time exposure technique for “painting with light” on nighttime landscapes. I saved that issue somewhere… and wish I could find it now, to see those amazing photos again. A couple of them are on Ruble’s website, http://www.lightbuilders.com/powerflicks.html, but in very low resolution. But the website has many more that weren’t in the article. There’s also a “behind the scenes” video at https://vimeo.com/14849951 showing the 2000-watt spotlight he used in painting the landscapes, and the variety of cameras he used for the long exposures. Those weren’t 20-second exposures, they were many hours. I’m not sure if that’s possible with a digital camera, especially a pocketable one. By strobing a small group of people at many different spots around the landscape, he could make it look like a cast of hundreds.
Lee, thanks for that info and links. Cool stuff! I’ve played around a bit more with lightpainting and you’ll be surprised what you can create. Here’s a link to a smaller, more portable but still bright handheld spotlight that could be fun. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00BTO90BQ/pocklens-20