For this weeks blog entry I wanted to look back at a creative photographic technique; light painting. This technique in its most simplistic form involves longer exposures in the dark using different coloured light sources in and out of the frame. I found an interesting photographer with a unique style named William Lesch who began shooting at night in the mid to late seventies, and developed his signature style of light painting in the early 80’s. His images mainly consisted of capturing the energy of the natural world but i was drawn into his expressionistic light painting. Lesch developed a technique that combined a daylight and a night exposure on the same piece of film, this enabled him not to get these artificial neon and glow effects but to bring out the more genuine deeper colours in his landscapes.
Troy Paiva was one of the many photographers most inspired by by Lesch's work (Light Painting). He also developed his own technique travelling hundreds of miles out into the dessert taking pictures of ghost towns and the western roadside. Paivas work was mainly digital and he would use coloured flashlights on location. The effects are rather astonishing considering the fact i cant stand high saturated images manipulated on photoshop there is just something really eye catching and unique about Paiva's work. "These photographs have multi-exposure compositing, contrast and perspective adjustments and minor cloning of lens-flare, but as with the older film work, the lighting FX and color are all done in-camera. These images are not Photoshop creations. What you see is what I shot that night".
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