How to paint with ice-skates | A Beginner's Guide to Light-painting | We The Curious

'Light-painting' photography uses light to draw a picture whilst taking a long-exposure photograph. In this tutorial, Heather gives you a beginner's guide to light-painting whilst recreating Gjon Mili's famous photographs of an ice-skater.

This video was presented by: Heather Nichol
Produced by: Ross Exton
Special thanks to Lillie Haden-Grant, Rachel Chivers and Jack Prosser

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[creativereindeer]

This was fantastic!! I will try and give this a go with my new camera - Absolutely brilliant work!! I somehow missed that this was a thing and think the art created by the ice-skater captured is incredible. Flippin' love a good mix of science and art!! Really nicely edited and cut together also :)

[OoxTruExoO]

How did they paint the light on to the video? After effects?

[xinyuerun]

Thanks for this video! Need help, I want to know the type of the camera, if there's anyone who knows it? Thank you for the answer

[NightShooter]

Nice vid, but you don't need a DSLR, any camera with Manual mode will do.

[bigedkc]

Hey that skater stole Mr doctors signiture