INSPIRED LIGHT in collaboration with INFINITI.
[vsw id=”2F6wq0XajZs” source=”youtube” width=”600″ height=”338″ autoplay=”no”] Here is the latest art project I did with Infiniti cars in Dubai. We transformed three cars into moving light painting brushes to create a new kind of image. The real inspiration for light painting comes when you discover that light is a medium of infinite qualities when you...
Neo Tribe in 360
Project for Geodezik, a creative client here from Montreal. First we did a pre-shot test to brainstorm and find a direction. Then we did the shoot in 360 degrees with 24 cameras opening at the same time in pitch black darkness. It’s basically the bullet time technique used widely in the Matrix movie plus light...
3rd World Light Painting Exhibition, Oviedo 2014
(updated 09/06/2014) 17.05.2014 1st International LightArt Comgress & 3rd World Light Painting Exhibition, Oviedo 2014 https://www.lpwalliance.com/event/53 We proudly present next LPWA event – 3rd Light Painting World Exhibition and 1st International Light Art Congress, held in Oviedo (Spain)! The time for exhibition July 4-13, for Congress July 4-5. This fantastic event become possible due to...
CAPTURING LUMINOUS THOUGHTS
Whooo, I’m feeling so strange right now, my vision is all blurry and my body aches like I’m going to faint. That was so strange and wild. Tonight after taking a bath I did a kind of OBE through this portal in some kind of dark space, I was out of this world. For...
Radiant Light
Most of what shapes reality is invisible. I’ve been fascinated by what we can’t see, from inner to outer worlds. Like the shape of sounds, energy, vibrations, feelings, the photons our bodies emits. Light is invisible until it touches something. Vibrations made by our voices have the most intricate shapes as we can see with cymatics....
Exodeus - Skin care
For the last year, I’ve been working with Exodeus natural skin care as an Art Director and photo-light painter. Exodeus is an amazing line of natural and organic luxury skin care products. https://exodeus.com In these photo of Deva Exodeus, the creator of the Exodeus line, I used 100% light painting to create her beauty light...
2nd International Light Painting Exhibition - Paris
After our first show in Moscow 2012, the Light Painting World Alliance had it’s second show in Paris at l’Espace Pierre Cardin. This video captures light painting now, where it’s at and who we are as a community: [vsw id=”84583548″ source=”vimeo” width=”500″ height=”281″ autoplay=”no”] See the full report here: https://www.lpwalliance.com/index2.php?type=eventview&id=51
Super Chromatic
(Click to see the full picture!) A collaboration with LOCAL B hair salon. Sexy beauty lighting created by hand with light painting. On this project I challenged myself to create and push basic beauty white light to show the hair, makeup and qualities of the model while keeping it sexy, edgy and fashionable. This...
EXODEUS - Emanate the beauty within
I’m now the art director and the image maker of EXODEUS. Exodeus is a skin care line based on Alchemy. The products are beautiful, holistic, natural organic. It is still rare and the demand is increasing for hi-end potent skin care product. The idea behind the line is to emanate the beauty within. To nourish...
I got a great interview with NIKON.
To see the complete version with the pictures, click here: https://blog.iamnikon.com/en_GB/d-slr/light-painting/ Text from the interview: PAINTING WITH LIGHT: PATRICK ROCHON Patrick Rochon is a Canadian photographer who specialises in shooting the movement and effects of light. We spoke to him about this technique and how he gets his stunning results. Tell us a bit about...
The Light Painting KATA
[vsw id=”70584720″ source=”vimeo” width=”600″ height=”337″ autoplay=”no”] Getting to the essence of what I do, I now understand that light painting is above all, movement. To me, it is a mix of dancing and martial arts. Light moves everywhere all the time. Our bodies are emitting light and expressing something subtle but important. We must see...
Light Painting Award Contest ’13
Updated 01/2014 The winners are here: https://www.lightart-photography.de/lp-award/ A must see, the 100 best selected pieces here: https://www.lightart-photography.de/lp-award/gallery/ ———- Take part in the 1st international Light Painting Award. With over 8000 EUR in prizes from Canon, Zeiss, Manfrotto, LED LENSER, Lucroit, Novoflex Submit up to two of your best photographies here: www.lightart-photography.de/lp-award You still have time up to 15...
TRANSIT Art Event.
We put together a new collaboration here in Montreal. This is a semi improvised performance mixing contemporary dance and light painting photography in collaboration with dance group Manon Fait de la Danse. It’s done with light painting photography and live video on monitors. (The show was shorten for this video edit) [vsw id=”69498035″ source=”vimeo” width=”600″...
250 Light Paintings in 6 minutes - SLIDE SHOW
[vsw id=”63976738″ source=”vimeo” width=”600″ height=”337″ autoplay=”no”] Here is a slide show I put together. It gives you a general idea of my work in the last years. With the great music of Pantha du Prince, titled Lay In a Shimmer. panthaduprince.com Special thank you to all the models and collaborators!
Red Bull + Snap! Orlando + Light Painting
MOTION TO LIGHT This is a collaborative project between Red Bull, Snap! Orlando, the wakeboard athletes: Mike Dowdy, Adam Errington, and Dallas Friday and myself as a light painter. It is purely experimental, none of us ever did a project like this before. We mixed sports and technology to create art. The movement of the athletes...
Interview and light tools in DIY Photography
Here is a good article on the 360 degree light painting project and also it shows a few simple tools that looks a little clunky but yet are very efficient light tools: https://www.diyphotography.net/360-lift-off-show-si-fi-3d-light-paintings/ Today on the blog we are hosting master light painter Patrick Rochon who collaborated with Eric Pare on a 360 light painting project....
LIFTOFF in 360º - The video
[vsw id=”57181398″ source=”vimeo” width=”600″ height=”337″ autoplay=”no”] It’s incredible to have the chance to create and collaborate on such projects. Hooking up with Timecode Lab and Eric Pare here in Montreal, I had the chance to experiment doing light painting in 360 degree. The set up is quite analog, 24 cameras on a ring in 360...
360° LP with Geneviève Borne
This is a purely artistic project. A collaboration of artists from Montreal using 24 cameras on a 360 ring in a complete dark room . We do long exposures in the dark to “paint” with light. All the cameras are triggered simultaneously. The average exposure time is between 2 and 3 minutes for one shot. See the other...
360° Blue Flight - The Ascention
This is a purely artistic project. A collaboration of artist from Montreal using 24 cameras on a 360 ring in full darkness. We do long exposures in the dark to “paint” with light. All the cameras are triggered simultaneously. The average exposure time is between 2 and 3 minutes. See the more animated 360° at https://24×360.com/patrick-rochon Model: Sanchia...
Campaign for the Ministère de la santé (Health Ministry) in Quebec
This was envisioned by the Kbs+p agency https://www.kbsp.ca. A campaign to encourage youth to live their passions intensely and naturally. They wanted light painting to show the movements, the energy, the intensity. We shot in a studio with flashes and did light painting during the long exposure. In the case of the hip hop dancers I...
New lights I’m playing with…
I’ve had special light built for me a while ago by my friend Farid Rener and finally started to use them. I asked Tomomi to pose for me. I first covered the whole face and hair with the lights but the human shape disappeared almost completely and it lost it’s balance so I simplified and did only...
Collaboration with Tomomi Morimoto
Collaboration with dancer and choreographer Tomomi Morimoto: https://www.tomomimorimoto.com/
Breaking the ice, light painting in the new loft
It’s been a while since I’ve light painted something just for fun… After moving to the new loft two months ago I finally got to my lights out and kicked a few moves. The ice is broken, I’m creating again and the new loft is doing me some good. Here’s what came out and feel free to...
