Visual Exploration: Picasso Light Painting.

This is just a quick one on something I thought was really interesting; Light painting is when you use a source of light in an otherwise dark setting and this creates bright light streaks.

One famous artist who used light painting was Pablo Picasso during the 1940's so Gjon Mili, a freelance photographer of the time visited Picasso and whilst showing several artists some of his light patterns Picasso grabbed a small flashlight and produced similar light patterns but he then allowed Mili to photograph and do a short collaboration of images of Greek profiles and beasts of lasting around 30 drawings he could keep from the session. The effect was created by Mili keeping the shutter open on his camera and captured the light paintings with a 1/10,000 second strobe light.

Here are some of the images from the shoot:

Picasso light painting original shoot, Gjon Mili

Here are some more examples of work I have been looking at other light painting:

Marko 93

After looking at several famous images of light painting by Picasso I decided to do my own of simple red fair lights and moving them around with my Nikon and they came out very successful so I decided to include them as a means of experimentation. I didn't make images as such but more light trails just to see what light and effects I could capture.