Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist who made paintings that were abstract, meaning they only sort of looked like something. He invented Cubism and other things that aren’t that important. What is important, is how amazing his art is.
Below is a photograph of Picasso painting with light. Which is half painting and half photography. Check out the images and the link and then come back for a quick explanation of how they are made.
Picasso: Drawing With Light – Photo Gallery – LIFE.
Pinting With Light is a trick of photography. What you see in the photo above is misleading. The white line drawing is not really hanging there in the air. At the moment this photgraph was captured, Picasso was crouched as you see him with the flashlight in his hand, but there was no drawing.
A camera captures an image by opening up a door (shutter) and letting light enter and expose the film inside. Usually it is only open for a short time, say 1/125 of a second or .008 seconds. To paint with light, you stand in a very dimly lit room open the shutter for 5 seconds or more while holding a light source and moving it around.
The light reflecting off of you is so dim that it doesn’t register on the film, but the light coming off the light source burns a path into the film and you see everywhere it has been. To capture yourself in the image, just set the flash on the camera to go off, or have someone turn the lights in the room on and off again.
Not everyone can be Picasso but just about anyone can manage to take a photograph like this.
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Source: Laughing Squid
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