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Vimeo naked body paint9/17/2023 The object of light painting is to capture light and or matter through movement over time. Weather close or far, weather still or in motion we can see everything at once in focus. Reproductive and documentary photography aims to capture what the naked eye sees, disregarding that all is in movement. In the beginning all photography was long exposure just like light painting. The technologies developed around photography have most often been to attain a sharp image, by reducing the time of exposure to light. However, between light painters the debate between a sharp and a soft focus continues. Considering how many paintings resemble photographs and how many photographs resemble paintings, the idea of imitation has a new appeal, especially in our day and age of computer imaging. Yet renaissance painters used the camera obscura to best reproduce on a flat surface what they could see with the naked eye just as photorealism and hyperrealism painters in the 21st century made paintings to best resemble a photograph. The first group created a movement called “Pictorialism”, where they chose soft focus for a dreamy atmosphere while the second group reacted to this with “Strait Photography”, not wanting to imitate. In the early 20th century a handful of photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz or Edward Weston advocated photography as fine art, while another group along with Ansel Adams thought photography should stay sharp and accurate. The term Light Painting may seem redundant with the meaning of photography, yet it isn’t really because it differs in the way light is used to make an image. The root meaning of photography being “drawing with light” photo comes from photon or light and graph from drawing. With the popularization of Light Painting Photography over the last decade, it would be timely to reopen the debate started between fine art photography and documentary photography. Chanette talks about how her Light Painting work has evolved over the past 20 years and explains why she feels Light Painting should fall into the category of Fine Art. documentary photography in Light Painting. In this excellent article written by Chanette Manso, originally published in german by LICHT MAGAZINE-Munich, GERMANY June 2015, she explores the debate of fine art vs. Night Photography: Finding Your Way In The Dark.Camera Rotation Light Painting Tutorial.Light Painting Workshop by Patrick Rochon.Fire Tutorials by Van Elder Photography.
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