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Awesome Light Graffiti Pictures

April 02, 2008

Long Exposure pictures can get pretty awesome if you have the right ideas. One of the coolest ideas is to make sweet light graffiti with this camera option.

During all summer I've played with it, and made some nice pictures (some other day I'll post it), but not as nice as some of these pictures right here! 98% of it was found on Flickr! Hope you like it.

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

Fotos incríveis de Graffiti de Luz, ou Light Graffiti ou ainda Light Painting

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165 Comments

Anonymous10/02/2009

really cool.

dreadshotz09/23/2009

DUDE THIS ROCKS I CAN DRAW A LITTLE BIT LIKE THIS AND IM ONLY 11

Daniel p09/11/2009

this is amazing, i would love to learn how to make pics like this. keep it up.

dereiçi09/03/2009

Amazing Light :P

Lexis 08/29/2009

i love all the pictures they are so cool . OMG

bedava chat08/25/2009

Very cool app. Can you tell me where to download the Help files? Apparently they didn’t make it during the install process, so it won’t load them. Thanks!

wrought iron furniture08/12/2009

Wow those are some awesome photos, I wish I could do something like that!

gebze evden eve nakliyat08/05/2009

nice collection :)
any way of producing this on Photoshop?

Anonymous07/16/2009

thank's to LightFactor team.

cixx07/07/2009

I want to thank you for this informative read,
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rx106/15/2009

Thanks nice collection. :)

megan06/14/2009

wow this is relle cool!
umm well how is it done??
=)

pozitiflife05/27/2009

nice collection very beatifull ? like
sohbet

oyun oyna05/07/2009

Woww nice photos..

Bank Vergleich05/06/2009

Wow. looks great.

Osmo-R04/13/2009

Yeah..!!
Come on.. that's perfect..!
woow. Thanks for the tutorial for:
http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting

I'll learning to do a perfect light effect.. thanks people..!!!!
Saludos a todos los mexicanos y a todos los diseñadores de esta gran pagina..!!

baharimsin04/06/2009

Cool! How is this done?
a?k ?iirleri

Gracie4901604/03/2009

WOW thaz kool wonder how ya did that

cellie03/22/2009

How did u make those?

cicicocuk03/16/2009

Nice work ,great collection. Thanks for the share.

müzik dinle02/20/2009

ooooooooooooo very very good!!

lilsainty02/02/2009

this page is sick

k?z oyunlar?01/30/2009

Welcome to Life 2.0, enjoy the ride...

chat01/12/2009

This is an impressive list, I cannot believe there are sites here I have never heard of. Some of them have some of the best resources I have seen in a while.

ats12/31/2008

Happy new year!

sohbet12/15/2008

Thank you information good
sohbet

sohbet12/15/2008

Thank you information good

evden eve nakliyat12/12/2008

heres the tutorial on PHOTOSHOP!! yes i said PHOTOSHOP!! all you pansys need to quit whinning about not being able to make this effect on photoshop ..you can make any effect on photoshop

shiningknight12/01/2008

Thanks for the info. one more creative way to play with my Canon!

müzik dinle11/24/2008

thanks you very much

autocad kursu11/24/2008

stop and exposures time, but some do (I think my camera is a Canon A-75 and it lets me do it). playings

Marietta Homes11/17/2008

those are great pictures, thanks for posting.

Aleoss11/13/2008

Thanks.

Sohbet - k?zlarla Sohbet - chat

hikaye11/10/2008

Yes Thats is a good idea

vhin11/01/2008

nice! great work.. ^^ can u please teach me or give me some idea how to do that thaks ^^

vzx10/29/2008

...very unique.

gazeteler10/22/2008

I am Very thank full the owner of this blog. Becouse of this blog is very imformative for me.. And I ask u some thiing You make more this type blog where we can get more knowledge. and any one tell me how can I find this type blog

Chris10/15/2008

Check the tutorial about Light Painting on Abduzeedo ^^
http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting

And new photographs from my light is life series on my website. Enjoy

muhabbet10/09/2008

Veery mch..

güzel sözler09/27/2008

have a feeling that some of these are done with real lights, but some must be photoshoped.
You would do it similar to the lighting tutorials, using color dodge and multiply.

North Cyprus Holiday09/26/2008

Your web site is really nice if we think the others
I think you had worked about that web site, hardly.
Like I see. Thank you for information tht i get.

sava?09/24/2008

So nice but there are many of spammers :@

Anonymous09/23/2008

Some interesting examples ... Nice collection.

As to the photoshop vs real time exposures debate. I very much doubt that any of the above examples were made in photoshop (with regards to the light source at least) - that being said it is in fact very possible to recreate the same FX in photoshop - using paths and a combination of layers, drop styles and blending.

The reason one might choose to do it in post is quite simple - more control. You can tweak and make precise lines and shapes - which is often necessary for more complicated images. Not too mention it also is therefore not dependent on exposure times.

That being said - it's generally more fun to just do it in real time.

hosting09/22/2008

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Fora09/21/2008

haven't really done much of this. but basically, you just set your camera to a long exposure time, and adjust the F-stop to account for the amount of light. make sure the subject stays very still and the camera is on a tripod, or SohbetI have a feeling that some of these are done with real lights, but some must be photoshoped.
You would do it similar to the lighting tutorials, using color dodge and multiply.

chatsorry for my bad english, im french.

for those asking how was it done :

the simpliest and easiest way is not with photoshop at all !
those pictures, are real pictures, made with 2 things : a camera (reflex-digital) and lights (white, blue, red, green, as you want, since its some pretty powerfull light)

Sohbetsorry for my bad english, im french.

for those asking how was it done :

the simpliest and easiest way is not with photoshop at all !
those pictures, are real pictures, made with 2 things : a camera (reflex-digital) and lights (white, blue, red, green, as you want, since its some pretty powerfull light)

muhabbetsorry for my bad english, im french.

for those asking how was it done :

the simpliest and easiest way is not with photoshop at all !
those pictures, are real pictures, made with 2 things : a camera (reflex-digital) and lights (white, blue, red, green, as you want, since its some pretty powerfull light)

chat09/21/2008

any way of producing this on Photoshop?

sohbet09/20/2008

Thank you very much

---------
sohbet

sohbet odalar?09/14/2008

A great explanation for the non-techie, non early adopters out there. Can you put the man/women complex into perspective next? haha

Otel09/11/2008

super thanxx you!!

MOin09/10/2008

some great great images up there and you shared a loooooot of them must spend hours on it i also do light graffiti sometimes but outcome is never so great i am sharing some of my work here i hope you like it =)

this is my name
http://images.socialshouts.com/images/o378a4bxzr6hmtd40ub.jpg

these are some experiments with fire
http://images.socialshouts.com/images/gv9l70ev4vxez8bavjkr.jpg

Tribal art
http://images.socialshouts.com/images/l9renytz1g5vdym2lo8x.jpg

some fire line
http://images.socialshouts.com/images/dksbwzd88fzwrjy3pbg.jpg

Hearts on water
http://images.socialshouts.com/images/fdi8ffcln2546z78f13.jpg

miragana09/10/2008

Good day!
It is very informative and has a very good quality in it.
I like it...

www.Squidoo.com/MPI
mliragana.blogspot.com

Thank you very much for your time.

batman fatih lisesi09/09/2008

thanks you very great

oyun oyna09/08/2008

thanks alot

JanLeo09/08/2008

here are a few LAPP photos and one new photo.

janleo°

[img]http://www.gruppe-vier-w.org/audio_upload/JanLeonardo__14072185.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.gruppe-vier-w.org/audio_upload/JanLeonardo__10306298.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.gruppe-vier-w.org/audio_upload/JanLeonardo__10182934.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.gruppe-vier-w.org/audio_upload/JanLeonardo__12681551.jpg[/img]

Sascha08/22/2008

Hey you would like some of my light graffiti pictures check out www.saschaheyer.de pleas comment thanks

sascha

janleo08/21/2008

hallo,

this technique use only longtime photography and many lights. this is not a photoshop work, it's only photography. the name of photography-technique is Light Art Performance Photography, short LAPP.

you need to learn some time around to work with the right lights. however, you must be very creative and must have phantasie.
i have developed LAPP one year along, but there is still a lot to discover.

its very funny to do this.

janleo°

Lovecolors08/17/2008

Nice Pictures :)

afon08/12/2008

is it difficult to do that? I think that's very cool art

Toner08/12/2008

Thanks very nice post.
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Toner08/12/2008

Really nice . But this done with Photoshop ? or Illustrator :S

Jan08/06/2008

hi jungs,

ich habe eure fotos gesehen und finde sie sehr interessant. wir (jörg+jan) machen auch lichtkunst (light art performance photography kurz LAPP), allerdings ein wenig anders ... keine graffiti.
vielleicht hat ja jemand ineresse, etwas mit uns zusammen zu machen:
www.lapp-pro.de

würde mich freuen etwas zu hören.

lieben gruss
janleo°

quit whinning07/25/2008

heres the tutorial on PHOTOSHOP!! yes i said PHOTOSHOP!! all you pansys need to quit whinning about not being able to make this effect on photoshop ..you can make any effect on photoshop!

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/light-streaks/

Ooty Blog07/25/2008

How could this done. Any tutorials???

http://ootyblog.blogspot.com

kishore Blog07/25/2008

Very Nice & Selected collections. (Abduzeedo.com is simply superb)

http://www.kishoreblog.com

Ooty Blog07/25/2008

Very Nice work. Thanks for the post

Michael Bosanko07/07/2008

Some great examples here; some I've seen quite recently on other sites.

I've been creating light sculptures for some time now; all examples can be found on my site at http://www.michaelbosanko.com/portfolio8407.html

I wrote an article about it early this year in Digital Camera Magazine; turned out to be quite a popular topic.

I've yet top see this replicated in photoshop with any success. Actually, I don't understand why some people would even contemplate the idea.

Regards,
Michael Bosanko

Thomasmburu07/03/2008

please let have tutorials for this

bedava oyunlar06/13/2008

The most beatiful is nineth picture

I mean seriously06/12/2008

how in god's name did you get it un distorted from photoshop? this is freakin awesome! btw I stumbled this

gebelik05/30/2008

very nice collections thanks

cep405/29/2008

Lightening is to dress up the light skillfully.
Veri nice, very nice.

webmaster05/29/2008

I don't get the "explosion" one... How were they able to stay suspended over the ground long enough to be exposed on the shot?

mozey05/26/2008

SWEEET< :) i had to animate some of these. enjoy,

Anonymous05/23/2008

These pix above are awesome...
Below are a few of mine

You can check my site and see more at www.lightbombing.com


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enjoy....

hazaelox05/20/2008

i took this one like a month ago, with my old Pentax cam, one that still used the negatives process...u know.. the really old ones.

http://www.fotolog.com/hazaelox/15595060

Anonymous05/16/2008

call
chicken

first timer from the greater goods of DC.

Colin05/08/2008

Nice pictures!

Ghetto Quiz05/06/2008

Im suprised to see this called Graffiti however it does tickle my fancy

Fachartikel für Fotografen05/02/2008

Great art! Very good.

Mathias Krohn04/30/2008

Mehr Bilder und ein Tutorial-Video unter http://www.localido.de/profil/beitrage_view.phtml?p=1&b=906

tdub04/26/2008

just made it tonight in a couple hours. if I had a better camera, more time and an extra set of hands....

gaijin30304/26/2008

I just had to try this out

robot 1

Nasa04/22/2008

DUDE!!! I LIKE ALL OF THEM

bmw 735i muffler04/22/2008

love the one on the side of the car. like a cool light.. now it only need speed trails...

Kevin in Essex04/21/2008

It really amazes me just how many people lack knowledge and imagination and have to ask the over used question...........Is it shopped?(As in photo)

I was doing this sort of thing back in the early 80's before the advent of digital manipulation.

KIDS............You have the net at your disposal, get on it and educate yourselves.

Gaurav04/19/2008

i dont have any words to say for this kind of unique idea
hats off , awesome,.........rock on......

Tuesdai Noelle04/14/2008

The Graffiti work is very unique, interesting, and imaginative. Cool indeed. The photos that I like best are; The purple car, the banks machines and the milk carton....the milk carton is crazy lol. Nice work :)

Anonymous04/13/2008

Honestly the best collection ive seen...great job.clever job.cool job. unique job. just perfect!

NameLess04/10/2008

I cant begin to say enough about these. They are definitely one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time. Very creative indeed.

Regards

deOuro04/09/2008

light painting rlz!

Advisor04/08/2008

Nice pictures you got here. Cool concept and Good collection!

namin04/08/2008

i love u r work ~

Firenze04/07/2008

I've messed around with light graffiti a few times before. Never did anything as elaborate as some of the stuff shown in the article, but it's definitely a fun thing to mess withhere

OZN04/07/2008

Faci treaba foarte buna, daca ai vre-un tutorial despre cum faci as fii incantat sa-l urmez si eu :)

Multumesc

Boz04/07/2008

These are brilliant! On a much smaller scale I have some taken of one of my parents' revolving fibre-optic lights. I will try and post some.

Miron04/06/2008

Wow, wow, wow!!!
You must write a tutorial on that ;)

simondehn04/06/2008

Hey there!

Thank you for linking my pictures :)
I'm glad that you like them!

Simon (flickr.com/simondehn)

EngeKomkommer04/06/2008

"Just wondered if anyone here ever went to a cemetary and got pics similar to these but without using any lighting effects? "

Nope, no one did. Show me the proof to prove me otherwise.

And great photos!

Yvee04/06/2008

Just wondered if anyone here ever went to a cemetary and got pics similar to these but without using any lighting effects? My daughter has and it would give you chills to see some of it.
*hums twilight zone music*
Try it you may be surprised at what comes up on your camera that you wouldn't have ever seen with the naked eye.
Ta ta for now
Yvee * * *

Andrew J04/06/2008

I just tried what MGK said. and it worked flawlessly!

Bravo!

Curtis04/05/2008

One of my most popular photos on Flickr was done with light painting:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/snwbeast/2298243467/in/set-72157604028633661/

The technique is pretty simple. Have a dark area, set your camera on "bulb" (or long-exposure), with a middling f-stop (I used f6.3 in the above shot).

Let your subject move around (slowly) with the lightsource. This can be anything from a flashlight to an LED light to (in my case) glow-sticks from the Dollar Store.

At the end of the exposure if you want to "freeze" the subject just pop a flash off, that will light them up and freeze them. In the above example I fired the flash twice, once at the beginning and once at the end. Easy peasy.

-- C

Peter04/05/2008

How do you do a long-exposure of people mid-air? Obviously they didn't float in mid-air for 30 seconds. What about the one of the guy 'pouring' light from a container, he's stood against a brightly lit scene so surely the person 'drawing' with the light would have shown up on the camera too?

So for at least some of these photos there must have been some manipulation.

JaKhris04/04/2008

Freaking awsome ! I love that kind of effect ! :)

RadarBeam04/04/2008

I don't get the "explosion" one... How were they able to stay suspended over the ground long enough to be exposed on the shot?

Baron04/04/2008

I guess great minds think alike. Here's a similar concept with some cool animation thrown in.

http://pikapikaproject.blog.so-net.ne.jp/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esLqgQ3s-pk&eurl=http://pikapikaproject.b...

JuGgLiNg_WiTh_StArS04/03/2008

Really cool stuffs in here ! Check mine if you're curious ^^

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23100241@N03/2213657551/sizes/l/

;)

Eiriks04/03/2008

I see some requests a tutorial on this. That can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eiriks/337964032/

Thanks for adding my pic to the list!

Garima04/03/2008

But there must be a person moving the light source. how come he/she doesnt get captured... ? just curious... otherwise ... great... !

wlkr04/03/2008

Some of the pictures are made by a german group calling themselves Lichtfaktor, they have their own MySpace-page with lots more pictures and animations done in this technique at http://www.myspace.com/lichtfaktor

At the same time I have to pimp my own page with similar pictures at http://wlkr.deviantart.com :)

Mitolover04/03/2008

These foto are very nice!

Braintrove.com04/03/2008

Wow. Some of those are pretty fun! Thanks!

Anonymous04/03/2008

what camera did you use? cause im about to buy one but i still dont know quit sure wich to buy. i will appreciate.

Scott04/03/2008

For those of you that like the effect:
http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-create-intense-ligh...
http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/freebies/six-free-high-res-glowing-l...

Its easy enough to do with a cell phone or glowstick or led keychain and a camera that lets you control the exposure length. get you and some of your friends together in the jr highschool soccer field on night, get drunk and go crazy!

set your camera on a tripod so you can do multiple takes and layer the images in PS

Scott04/03/2008

The Red Hots did it a while ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epkhJJxRftA
I think they faked theirs a bit more than a lot of the people here. Some you can tell are done with multiple photos layered on top of eachother. The example above with the parallel lines was obviously mostly adobe, but, 2 pictures later in the same room it looks like the guy did a real one either using 3 photos or a real dark room and real long exposure! Great stuff, i need a tripod so i can do this stuff on my own!

adam04/03/2008

These pictures are fantastic, but not the work of the author. If you pay attention and read the opening paragraph, he clearly states that these are from flickr. So while his upcoming pictures may be cool, don't congratulate him quite yet. I have a couple good ones of my own though.

http://a423.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/75/l_ff1520736f328ecacaf19...
http://a972.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/117/l_f397fb30388f76cb0b05...
http://a609.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/35/l_ec07faf735853953288b3...
http://a901.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/2/l_8b0b06c6247e6b6bd3fa03...

Anonymous04/03/2008

To the children:

This is not photoshop, this is light graffiti. Anyone who is educated in photography should know that, it's a very basic and old concept. Photoshop..well I have never seen anything that comes realistically close to light graffiti done in photoshop and I have been designing using Adobe and Photography for 8 years.

To the designer:

Very creative usage. I like what you did with painting hands on the vending machines and giving them characterisms. That was very new and cool. Look forward to more.

Anonymous04/03/2008

why dont you get your lazy ass out there and try to have some fun with photography instead of relying on photoshop for everything.

makes me sick

Anonymous04/03/2008

As far as I'm aware, there's no way to replicate this in Photoshop. As many other comments have said, you need a camera which allows for some degree of manual control(in other words, a dSLR. The little point-and-shoots I see everybody with probably won't cut it) and a dark area. I'm pretty sure that if you tried using PSDtut's Glow tutorial to get it to the standard in the photos you'd be there for a couple of days at least, and it won't be nearly as fun.

TO RECAP: THESE PHOTOS USE CAMERAS, NOT PHOTOSHOP. PLEASE READ THE COMMENTS.

roennow04/03/2008

I didn't expect seeing so many pictures from my hometown Aalborg here :)

Ryan04/03/2008

me and my friend tried this also for the first time, not as amazing as these but some of them came out really well. Check them out:

http://www.tgnn.co.uk/light-graffiti-by-tgnn/

wolfgang04/03/2008

Very nice collection. I saw an Artist, who does georgeous "light-paintings" about a year ago but can't remember his name :(

@Scarlett, there is a tutorial at the comuter-arts-site:
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop/painting_with...
I just looked at it quickly, but it seems to be ok.

Ben04/03/2008

Very Cool.
You have inspired me to try this.

Acronyms04/03/2008

I have to create similar things with my 400D

Anonymous04/03/2008

These are great! really cool stuff. It seems a shame you don't give the photographers credits.

Jack04/03/2008

Holy crap, those pictures are freakin awesome. Checked out the rest of the site and its amazing as well. Its probable that I may have found a new addiction to life other than ibeatyou.com Keep up the good work.

Den Vredowsky04/03/2008

Excellent idea for a photography project.
I like the guy with a light guitar very much. I hope to create some similar pictures.

Thank you for sharing this art !

Louis Vuitton Replica04/03/2008

WOW you are very talented artist. :) I would love to read a tutorial of how to learn this technique. It looks cool ^^

Om04/03/2008

Awesome works. Keep it up :)

Light Paintings04/03/2008

This is a fantastic site. I just subscribed and look forward to more posts like this.
There are a LOT more "Light Paintings" just like these here.

Jackaroo Dragon04/03/2008

Awesome pics!

You could probably do something like it on photoshop, though having no experience with the program, I wouldn't be able to give the slightest hint as to how it would be done.
The down side with doing it artificially is you won't get the cool reflections on surrounding surfaces (eg, see the second from the bottom; the colours are reflected from the walls), unless you spend a lot of time editing the pic.. *razz* easier to do it with a camera (that allows adjusting of the shutterspeed) and some glowsticks.

acoustix04/03/2008

Welcome to Life 2.0, enjoy the ride...

Mong04/03/2008

lichtfaktor 4 eva!!!!

AIM: Iwish4pizza04/03/2008

wow, i found your site through digg.com somehow and this is crazy! These pictures are amazing. As for the website overall i'm loving it X3 i'll be sure to visit this site as often as kids do on myspace!

iStig04/03/2008

Fantastic collection of images!
This is something I definitely want to try now.

Anonymous04/03/2008

I hope they cleaned up that mess, crazy kids and their light graffiti :P

Graffiti04/03/2008

I love these, but I prefer real graffiti!

Phil04/03/2008

Great art! Perhaps you should have a look to the beautiful PikaPika Project!
http://pikapikaproject.blog.so-net.ne.jp/

Tweek04/03/2008

When I was introduced to this concept it was called Light Painting (for those of you who were looking for a different name for this).

A similar effect can be pulled off in Photoshop using a similar method described in PSDtut's Glow tutorial.

David04/03/2008

light graffiti a bad name? i think thats an awesome name. btw amazing work :]

pctec04/03/2008

Those are awesome :)

adeline04/03/2008

to the person who referenced the spring commercials...

some friends of mine are in a band called the willowz and they shot a music video with Tobin Seymour using time laspe cameras with light graffiti about a year or so before the sprint commercials came out.

i'm not saying he "invented" this or anything... but those sprint commercials always remind me of that video.

i'm in the process of doing some photography like this myself :)

GraffitiWallpaper04/03/2008

very creative.. :) what kind of camera was used to take these pics?

tommy
http://www.mygraffitiwallpaper.com

David Sanchez04/03/2008

If you think this is PS or AI you are a @#!%@$%, This is classic long exposure on a Digital SLR Camera.

MGK04/02/2008

Hey,

sorry for my bad english, im french.

for those asking how was it done :

the simpliest and easiest way is not with photoshop at all !
those pictures, are real pictures, made with 2 things : a camera (reflex-digital) and lights (white, blue, red, green, as you want, since its some pretty powerfull light)
all you have to do, is set up a good obturator speed (like 30s for example) so that you have time to "draw" your stuff with your lights, as if you were tagging some wall invisibly.

the obturator then closes up, your picture is taken, and voila ! your lights will remain on it, because of the speed light, but since you moved to make the drawing, you won't appear (or as a mid-hollow man) and you will obtain some gorgeous effet :D

try it, beleive me, its fun.

nb : test it with some kick-ass lights, the result will be a lot better than with your mobile's light ! you just have to see the 4th picture from the end to notice the powerness of the light (the room is in the dark during the shoot)

oh, just noticed tim comment, but well, better two comments on a "How to" than none ^^

waiting for a PSDtuts on that ;)

Bryan04/02/2008

As for a "better name" for this I like "Light Lapse Art"

tim04/02/2008

haven't really done much of this. but basically, you just set your camera to a long exposure time, and adjust the F-stop to account for the amount of light. make sure the subject stays very still and the camera is on a tripod, or somehow stabilized. then press the shutter and draw your 'graffiti' with some sort of bright light. the person holding the light will barely show up, if at all since they are not very bright and moving relatively fast. most point and shoot digital cameras don't let you set the f-stop and exposure time, but some do (I think my camera is a Canon A-75 and it lets me do it). playing with long exposure times leads to a lot of fun stuff in addition to 'graffiti' such and pictures with a still background and a subject that is blurred and appears to be in motion.

Anonymous04/02/2008

someone's got to come up with a better name for this... has anyone stopped to think that it's not actually graffiti???

Totally awesome?? For sure. Graffiti?? No.

T9xz04/02/2008

thank's to LightFactor team.

PauloGabriel04/02/2008

Hey, everyone. I've posted this, and as far as I know, all of them are made with real light! But propably Fabio will figure out a way to do that on PS! ;)

Anthony04/02/2008

Thanks!!!

Felipe04/02/2008

Is there any tutorials on this? I would love to try it

abduzeedo04/02/2008

Thanks for the comments... I will definitely write a tutorial on that ;)

Anthony04/02/2008

I have a feeling that some of these are done with real lights, but some must be photoshoped.
You would do it similar to the lighting tutorials, using color dodge and multiply.

http://abduzeedo.com/magic-lighting-effect-photoshop
http://abduzeedo.com/amazing-photoshop-light-effect-10-steps

I still think you should make a tutorial though Abduzeedo, I think it would come out great.

Ahmet04/02/2008

Really nice . But this done with Photoshop ? or Illustrator :S

Anonymous04/02/2008

Cool! How is this done?

Anonymous04/02/2008

More coverage in more areas.

Only with Sprint®

Scarlett04/02/2008

nice collection :)
any way of producing this on Photoshop?

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