Light painting, also known as light drawing is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a light source or by moving the camera, that's the Wikipedia.org definition and in this guide/tutorial Christopher Hibbert will give us some tips on how to produce this effects with your camera.
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The lenses
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Zane Prater and Saad Moosajee, a self taught freelance Illustrator and Art Director living in Denver, Colorado. Saad has worked for clients such as Dell, Tiger Beer, HTC, 361 Degrees, and Computer Arts Magazine. Saad is currently the creative head at the Slashthree Collective. Zane Prater is a 18 year old llustrator currently living in San Francisco. He attends the San Francisco Art Institute, and recently created numerous illustrations for 303 skateboards.
The book suggestion of this week is a very inspiring one for those in love with vintage typography, it's called Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age. It's definitely a book for when you need some extra motivation and inspiration.
About the book
Elegant, quirky, fluid, brutish, ostentatious— a visual resource of cursives and other typefaces that resemble handwriting.