Weekly Entry 5: Post-modern Light Painting by David Gilliver

It was a few days ago when I went to Shaheir's house then he showed me some of his light paintings. I was near clueless about light painting. What is it? Well gentlemen, this is light painting.





I was amazed by his so called "light-paintings" and started to look up the web. What I found was a website by David Gilliver, a professional photographer who dwells in the realm of light painting. Camera is his hammer, lights are his burning coal, and landscape is his anvil. He is a master crafter of light paintings. How did he do this? He stocked up on a lot of light sources such as LEDs and such. Then find a landscape or anything, to shoot to, set a very slow shutter speed to his camera and starts 'filming'. He usually do this for about 15- to 20 minutes for a single photo, and to 'hide' himself from the camera, he wears black.

To my opinion, this talented artist has a great sense of depth and imagination in his mind, making it a lot easier for him to calculate and estimate the flow of each light and how they look in the camera 10 minutes later. Would you like to see the rest of his work? Click here.

Images from: davidgilliverphotography.com