Light painting my GSX 14

[mikesaa309]

One rather cold night I decided to grab my dslr camera and a tripod, ride to a local ww2 memorial in Grafton Underwood and try a photography technique called light painting. By setting shutter speed to be slow then under exposing the shot so it's pitch black, U can then press the shutter button and shine a light (my phones flash light in this case) and light up the different areas of the bike. I took several pictures lighting up different parts then combined the images in photoshop afterwards to get the different lighting depending on what shots I combined. Didn't turn out too bad as my first attempt.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/1OZ6hRjiURaQefhJ3

[Notty]

Welcome - very impressive good job it isn't one of those very slow BLACK 1400's !

[KiwiCol]

Giday mate & welcome along. Yes, very nice effect is that. Well done. 

[Mrg]

lol a pic paints a thousands words  but id love to see what it looked like
and welcome   

[mikesaa309]

lol a pic paints a thousands words  but id love to see what it looked like
and welcome 

Not sure why they're no longer showing  Instead I've put a link to the photos via google photos.

[Del]

nice photos and welcome to the forum 

Del

[VladTepes]

Light painting pics are good mate.


I always reckon the headlight on is the better look but sometimes just needs the brightness on the light toned down a bit in post, so that the contrast isn;t so great it distracts from the rest of the pic.


I light painted a local shipwreck once.... not easy..

[Kiwifruit]

Great photos Mike, nice work 

My brother has been a news cameraman / photographer all his life. On quite a number of occaisions early in his career he was told to bugger off by the emergency services. At night to get his shot light painting was how he did it.
Years later he became well respected by the fire, police and ambo staff, alway giving them his footage. This they then used for training.
Eg , How far should you park a brand new and very expensive fire appliance from the warehouse fire you are fighting?
The importance of the answer was demonstrated by the firefighters seen playing water on their own appliance as the plastic drooped and fell off. Fireys told him it cost $150,000 to fix it.
For the Police.....how to use Road Spikes. Footage showed coppers spiking one of their own cars.
Photography in all its forms is so interesting. As has been said " a picture paints a thousand words".