LIGHTPAINTINGS | The V Gallery

LIGHTPAINTINGS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

WHAT ARE LIGHTPAINTINGS

The term "Lightpaintings" comes from the word "Photograph" In Latin, the word "Foto" means "light" The word "Graph" means "draw" or in some languages translates as "paint". Put together you get "photograph" or Lightpainting", which is what we have created in this collection. We literally held the shutter on the camera open and walked around painting light on the subjects with a simple flashlight purchased from a hardware store. Since light overcomes darkness and reveals what is hidden in the darkness, the image is highly dependent upon how the light is used and what is revealed. They say "content is king and composition is queen". Vandivier would add "then lighting for a great photo is God!".

VANDIVIER'S LIGHTPAINTINGS

This collection of lightpaintings was created by Kevin Vandivier. Vandivier first started playing with lightpainting while in college in 1977. For Kevin it was just a hobby technique to play with occasionally. Then a major national magazine discovered his works and asked him to write an article on his lightpainting techniques.

MOON LIGHT LOVERS

THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO:

Sometimes I feel inspired to create a scene from my imagination and light paint it. For years whenever we had time, the skies were clear and there was a full moon rising, my wife and I would find some remote field, throw a blanket down, pop the cork off the top of a wine bottle ( in our more frugal days we would unscrew the top off the wine bottle;) and lets just say we enjoyed the moonlight. I decided to take these experiences and create a lightpainting from a much more innocent time.

-Kevin Vandivier

PRINTS & ADVENTURES

Vandivier's fine art prints are sold in limited editions and printed on your choice of Dye Infused Metal Prints mounted and ready to hang, Chromira Metalic Archival Paper and finally Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Due to limited availability, Vandivier masterwork, prints cannot be purchased online. For collector inquiries, please click "contact" below to be connected with our Art Specialist. If you're interested in knowing more about Vandivier's workshop adventures checkout National Photographic Adventures at www.scenicpic.com

FALL ASPENS & GRAND TETONS

THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO:

I enjoy traveling to the Grand Tetons just about every year to either shoot new fine art imagery or to lead a photographic fine art photography workshop adventure. Through the years I had photographed this tree lined road, mostly aspens , with The Grand Teton usually being the main focus of the photo at the end of the road. One year I decided to make the trees the main focus of the shot when I saw how beautiful the aspens were once their leaves had turned neon yellow. Having the bright idea to light paint the aspens, feeling it would make a great fine art print for my studio wall. At the time I was teaching a workshop adventure and was demonstrating my lighting techniques as the students lined up across the road shooting as we drove up and down the road light painting the trees for them. Now down at the end of the road it hooked a sharp right and on one of those trips awaiting me with his gun drawn was a Game Warden. The officer was sure I and his helpers were using the flashlights to freeze wildlife in their tracks so it was easy to shoot them down, which is very illegal but, many losers with a gun do this all the time. The officer completely emptied my Landcruiser, stopping only to ask where the guns were? My answer to him was the same each time, "we don't shoot with guns, we shoot with camera's" I even encouraged him to "look around the curve to see the line of photographers lined up across the road." You can't fix stupid! After 30 minutes of looking the warden finally walked down to the curve and saw the workshop photographers all lined up with their cameras. Jokingly, I yelled to the guy to "be careful, thats a real firing squad and they might shoot you:)". The warden turned and smiled sheepishly told us to have a nice day. We returned to our light painting, a bit shocked we had not lost a single student to boredom while all this took place out of their sights and had to be wondering what in the world had happened to their instructor. In the end this beautiful image was created.

-Kevin Vandivier

PRINTS & ADVENTURES

Vandivier's fine art prints are sold in limited editions and printed on your choice of Dye Infused Metal Prints mounted and ready to hang, Chromira Metalic Archival Paper and finally Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Due to limited availability, Vandivier masterwork, prints cannot be purchased online. For collector inquiries, please click "contact" below to be connected with our Art Specialist. If you're interested in knowing more about Vandivier's workshop adventures checkout National Photographic Adventures at www.scenicpic.com