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This is an instructional and technical program to introduce photographers to light painting and light drawing, by New England-based fine art photographer Jürgen Lobert.

Adding artificial light to photos taken at night can be done through a number of techniques. Light painting adds additional light to existing surfaces, but light drawing is one of the few techniques where a photographer can actively create unique and intriguing content, rather than simply photographing existing objects. The following topics are covered:

• Introduction to night photography equipment & settings

  • Trigonometry for photographers: the exposure triangle

  • Capturing time so you can spend it on painting

• Adding light

  • Exposure considerations and the square root paradigm

  • Angles: how geometry creates intrigue

• Buy or do it yourself: the light painter’s toolbox (demo)

• Light Painting: How to convert a flashlight into a paint brush

• Light Drawing: Unleash your artistic side

• The three secrets of how to master light painting and drawing.

• Post-processing considerations

• Resources

Throughout the presentation, Jürgen demonstrates a number of light painting tools and shows how to use them and how they look using many visual examples.