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Magic light! It must be seen!

Good afternoon!

My name is Evgeniy. I am 23 years old. I live in Kazan (Russia). Have you ever wondered what if it is possible to freeze the light? No, I do not want to talk about the physical theory of the possibility of freezing the light. I want to tell you about my hobby .I am engaged in freezelight. At first sight, it seems that it is impossible to freeze the light. However, I will show you the wonders that can be!

http://i.imgur.com/nMxTVVC.jpg

Freezelight is photographing at slow shutter speeds, with specially painted light objects and abstractions. Freezelight – is amazing frozen light art into a photo. Freezelight also called lightpaintning, painting of light, light graffiti, but these names are means one thing - light painting.

http://i.imgur.com/EEcl5Na.jpg

A little bit of history: The "light painting" started in 1949, when famous photographer from the “Life” magazine Guyon Miles came to the studio of Pablo Picasso. He invited Pablo to joint experiments with new photo technique. Guyon attached small lights to shoes of skaters As a result, you can see the trace that hanging in the air on following photo. Then this photographic technique has been named "drawing in space» (space drawing). Impressed, Picasso decided to try his abilities, using the same technique. We can say that the great artist was the founder of "Freezelight" direction.

http://i.imgur.com/CBDOWoO.jpg

You may think that this is a Photoshop. But I'm not sure that in 1949, Pablo Picasso can use the Photoshop =)

First time I heard about freezelight was in 2009. I was at master class in photography. We were told about this new direction in photography. To begin Freezelight you need a few basic tools: camera, light source and the author's fantasy. Looking at the photos, I was amazed. I thought this is magic. Some of the pictures are charming. They attract the sight. Here are some of them.

http://i.imgur.com/QA22bqp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/z4FcmGI.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/VfjFbJ4.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/026VZJy.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/4Ocbijy.jpg

When I come home, I immediately tried to take some photos. The first pictures were simple and uninteresting, but I was satisfied of them.

http://i.imgur.com/7Rk6Jvk.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Xz8kfXE.jpg

Unfortunately, at the store is very small range of lanterns, so I started to create new flashlights. I thought that it is possible to draw by my own hands. Quite so, I started the freezelight.

http://i.imgur.com/rQTyzyj.jpg

Then I said about freezelight to my friends and after that we walked together around night city and create new photos.

http://i.imgur.com/miBMmA7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jKZuSOE.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/nMxDW0K.jpg

When I heard about steemit I decided to make a new photo series.

http://i.imgur.com/YxFQTCq.jpg

«It's me»

http://i.imgur.com/phFtnja.jpg

«Hi Steemit»

http://i.imgur.com/Lztmpn8.jpg

Sometimes you can take about hundred photos to make the right one. It takes a lot of time. You can work for the whole night, but take only one photo. But one successful photo is totally great.

There is my old photos.

http://i.imgur.com/QbQKB3x.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/4L3NWm8.jpg

I had an inspiration from many photographers who work in Freezelight style. I want to tell you about some of them.

Simon Berger

http://i.imgur.com/vNe4e3s.jpg

Lapp-pro

http://i.imgur.com/MeD9cAG.jpg

Eric Pare

http://i.imgur.com/fSyk5vr.jpg

Gareth Brooks

http://i.imgur.com/Rd3kKjf.jpg

And the Russian project.

http://i.imgur.com/EyyLOHf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0pvFc8e.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/uQ9dgYk.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ttlR11G.jpg

I will be glad if you enjoyed, also if you send comment. I will answer to all of you questions.

Next time I want to talk about how to take pictures in Freezelight style.

P.S. If you are think that you need professional camera, you are wrong. You can also use a usual camera.

http://i.imgur.com/Tc3P6sx.jpg