How to make your own air graffiti photos/art using LED glowsticks.

Painting in the air… so much fun, cheap and easy to do. Here’s how: Now you can probably see my 3 year old daughter’s feet in the pic below whilst her big 6 year old brother manages to go a bit higher with the blue/yellow combo. I made this image on the weekend using colour changing LED glowsticks (you can get these on ebay or the address below) and a 6 second exposure (Nikon D70). I’ve since made a neat few wallpaper desktops with this effect (will post them later when I have a spare sec to edit them to the right size).

air graffiti kids

Cheap LED glowsticks for under $10 can be found from companies like this:
http://www.glowproducts.com/batteryoperated/rainbowshakestick/

glowsticks 

or you can try Ebay:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=LED+glow+sticks&category0=

3 Responses to “How to make your own air graffiti photos/art using LED glowsticks.”

  1. Amazing Light Painting - Hi-Res Air Graffiti Wallpaper Download « Amnesia Blog Says:

    [...] We made this hi-res air-graffiti light image using a technique we worked out (here). The images are pretty stunning, especially when you see them in high res. Here’s one for [...]

  2. eunmac Says:

    If you just read this and are wondering what the possibilites are… see what we did using exactly the same technique (amnesiablog internal link):
    http://amnesiablog.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/amazing-light-painting-hi-res-air-graffiti-wallpaper-download/

  3. jye360 Says:

    where do u get the ones that leave that pattern like they the markes in the air can u tell me where to get them or how to make them thx

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