#Tiny balls of light full#
Depending on how long your exposure is, your image might even look as if it was taken in the daytime.ĭuring this project, however, cloud cover nixed our hopes for the full moon. In addition, a full moon offers the best opportunity to shoot a ball of light it will allow you to see the surrounding area in the final image. As the camera can only record light, your chances of appearing in your photo are reduced greatly by wearing black. When setting out to shoot balls of light, and when light painting in general, you should wear black clothing otherwise you risk showing up as a ghost in your image. It’s also a lot easier on the wrists!īalls of Light in the Creek by Richard Steinberger on 500px You can then move the 5-foot pole in the needed circle and, to suit your purposes, you can vary your turning speed and the angles of your lights to the camera. I figured it would be much more practical to put daylight-balanced LEDs on a 5-foot pole that’s fastened with a bolt to a second pole that’s resting vertically on the ground.
I’ve never cared too much for doing it this way it doesn’t seem very exact, and quite frankly, it’s a lot of work. I’ve seen varying forms of this done from LEDs connected by wires to a battery pack, to flashlights tied to a rope. The most popular way is to take a light source, put it on a string that you swing around in a circle with your hand while rotating your body in its own circle (making sure that the lowest point of the circle is always in the same place). So, what is this “ball of light,” and how can you create one? The simple answer: light painting. What to do? Well, I’ve always thought that a person makes his or her own luck, so with that in mind we stopped at a waterfall on the way back to Grant for one more try at our ball of light. By the time we reached the car, it was completely dark, and we had solid cloud cover. After seeing rapidly approaching storm clouds and worrisome lightning strikes on nearby ridges, we decided to abandon the plan and hike back to our car. Unfortunately, the weather didn’t clear as we had hoped. I framed the shot in the remaining daylight, planning to place the ball of light between the two boulders that appear toward the right side of the frame. One of those peaks was Square Top Mountain, pictured below. Bierstadt, one of Colorado’s celebrated Fourteeners, and a variety of other nearby peaks. From there, we had jaw-dropping views of Mt. Leaving our car behind, we climbed from the parking lot at 11,500 feet to the top of a nearby hill at approximately 12,000 feet. We traveled to the tiny hamlet of Grant and, from there, drove up to Guanella Pass. I figured it wouldn’t do to produce the ball of light in my front yard, so we headed for the high country about two hours southwest of Denver, Colorado. Always up for a bit of nighttime fun, I agreed, and we (me, my wife Heather and my husky Kai) set out to produce a photograph for the 500px Blog during the full moon on June 4th. Specifically she was interested in how I create one of my “balls of light” images. A few weeks back, 500px asked me if I’d be interested in contributing a tutorial to the company’s blog.
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