The iphoneography community rules. Since the launch of LightBomber, the iPhone shooters of the world have been some of our favorite people, giving feedback, spreading the word, and creating KILLER images with LB.
So, when we got the chance to partner with the folks at Instagram NYC for one of their epic Photo Walks, we were DOWN.

Last Friday was a first for us. We’ve done many many photo booths, but until Friday, none of them were shot exclusively on Lightbomber. We usually bring out a nice backdrop, a tripod, a camera and our usual arsenal of lights and go to town shooting then printing photos for people.

After last week’s amazing Decim8 experiment, we want to move on to portraits. Making portraits in LightBomber is a crazy process. Lightpainting favors things that are moving. Portraits, on the other hand favor sitting still. However, this doesn’t mean that light painting portraits are not possible. All you have to do is embrace the chaos of a moving person, an open shutter, and a bunch of bright lights. Sometimes the results are beautiful, sometimes they are insane.

While cruising the LightBomber gallery (as we tend to do…all the time…) we started to notice these brilliant abstract patterns coming from our users. These kinds of photos are attractive for their mystery. A more “traditional” light painting will reveal a subject surrounded in light, and those are the ones that will hook you in every time because they beg the question, “how is it possible for that light and that person to co-exist in the same frame?”