Arts Design

THE ART OF ORANGE LIGHT NOW

Today we are sharing the works of 5 brilliant artists who create masterpieces with orange light.

Orange light happens naturally with the rising and setting sun, and with most fire. Tunsten bulbs also emit orange light. And anything illuminated by orange light is, of course, affected. Beyond visual effect, orange light affects our psyches as well.

JAN LEONARDO WÖLLERT - JÖRG MIEDZA -- LAPP-PRO

Light Art Performance Photography (aka LAPP-Pro) are a Bremen-based duo – Jan Leonardo Wöllert and Jörg Miedza specialize in performance photography, in which they choreograph controlled light, moving organized lighting through space while photographing its trails using long exposures.

The result is a kind of orange light sculpture or dance. Their performances are often accompanied by music.

The artist’s light movements are generally choreographed and rehearsed prior to the exposure being taken. In 1996, Joerg began shooting long exposure photography and Jan Leonardo began experimenting with night photography in 2003.

In 2007, Jan Leonardo found himself trapped overnight inside an industrial complex. While there, to pass time, he used his camera and LED lights to create his first light painting images.

LAPP-Pro compositions usually are created in a series of 20 single steps. The camera is mounted on a tripod with a remote control to trigger. Exposures often are over 60 minutes long. Fireworks, lightsticks, flash, and other specifically developed light tools are used.

LAPP-Pro by Jan Leonardo Wöllert and Jörg Miedza is no longer active. Former team-members are working separately on new projects. Check out their book Painting with Light to learn more about their story.

For even more info check out their website LAPP-Pro.

MARC B.B.

Marc B.B. is another light artist who uses long exposure photography. He won the prize for ‘Urban Photographer of the Year’ in 2009.

Check out his masterclass in Light Painting for Digital Photographer Magazine. He is a member of the Light Painting World Alliance, and is sponsored by LED Lenser and EL Wirecraft.

DAN DECHIARO

Photographer Dan DeChiaro works with an accomplice who spins burning steel wool in an eggbeater and films the resulting orange spark trails.

He shoots with a Nikon D5000, using a Nikkor 18-200mm VR lens and exposes his shots for more than 36 seconds.

For these photos, the eggbeater was attached to a lanyard at the top of a highway overpass and shot from below.

JAMES TURRELL

Award-winning artist James Turrell is renowned for his mastery of creating works out of colored light and space. While he works with many colors, he does have a special way with orange.

Turrell has been working with colored light and space for over 50 years. In addition to his training as an artist, Turrell has deep training in perceptual psychology and is particularly interested in how color and light affect our minds and bodies.

“I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it…my work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing.”

— James Turrell

Turrell is also a trained pilot and counts his time in the sky as creative experience. He has created over eighty Skyspaces, with apertures in the ceilings that are open to the sky.

As the sun moves from orange dawn to orange sunset and beyond, the colors inside the Skyspaces change and the viewer’s experience changes along with it.

Read more about Beautiful Orange, as it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact including 10 Beautiful Fast Orange Cars Now, Spectacular Orange Pyrotechnics From Below & Above Now and Heirloom Orange is Beautiful Now.

Enter your own images and ideas about Beautiful Orange in this week’s creative Photo Competition. Open for entries now until 11:59 p.m. PT on 11.02.14. If you are reading this after that date, check out the current BN Creative Competition, and enter!