Light Art Performance Photography

Minneapolis/St.Paul based artist Dana Maltby uses a open shutter and a slew of colored lights to create some fascinating images that he calls "light art performance photography." All images are straight from the camera, no photoshop, no computer manipulation at all; not even cropping or adjusting.

Here is a link to a video that shows how he makes light paintings

• [Jonathan Harford]

  “All images are straight from the camera, no photoshop, no computer manipulation at all; not even cropping or adjusting.”

  Wow, that’s really low-resolution camera!

• [optimuz]

  TCB has some great shots, but to say there’s no computer manipulation whatsoever is complete nonsense.

  The work is best viewed fron FlickR, on black. Amazing what can be done with some electroluminescent wire/LEDs and someone willing to dance around in the darkness like a mentalist!

• [Djinn PAWN]

  I was doing stuff like this in the summer with my son – not as dramatic as this though. Grab a couple of different flashlights and a few cameras, open your shutter all the way and wait ’til dark. It’s great fun!

  Oh, I remembered that two years ago we used sparklers instead of flashlights, still fun, but you run out of sparklers pretty quick.

• [Anonymous]

  Hello Ladies & Gents!

  I can tell you that all of his image are STRAIGHT from the camera with no editing… He just pulls them from the card to flickr. I have worked with him before. I actually graduated from the same college as him. LAPP is a TON of fun and anyone can do it!

  check out some of my work here… you can see some co-labs with TCB in there too..

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/55125/sets/72157622518993830/

• [Anonymous]

  yeah, good fun, back when cameras actually had manual controls…

  try finding “bulb” mode on anything lately!

• [matthewbam]

  I do the same thing with amusement park rides.

• [Anonymous]

  3 bored friends + shrooms + laser pointer + long exposure = http://www.flickr.com/photos/alive_world_runners/sets/72157611314103390/

• [Anonymous]

  “try finding bulb mode”..? any decent dslr has this. i use it all the time. works even better with a wireless remote.

• [lowrahk]

  I am a huge fan of TCB- check out his flickr for some really amazing stuff: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twincitiesbrightest/

• [Spencer Cross]

  Coincidentally, a friend just sent me Flickr links of graffiti artists working in a similar fashion:

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/jannepaint/4066151142/in/pool-39686250@N00
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/jannepaint/4066148058/in/pool-39686250@N00

  Very cool stuff!

• [scissorfighter]

  German artists Joerg Miedza and JanLeonardo Woellert have been doing an even more advanced form of this for at least 3 years now, and I suspect they provided a bit of inspiration for Mr. Maltby’s work.

  http://www.lapp-pro.de/