Light drawing, camera painting, it doesn’t matter what you name it; it’s a form of photography, or art if you wish, that seems to be mighty popular these days, but most of all a lot of fun. 
The basic technique behind it all is fairly simple; get a decent camera that allows you to use a longer then usual shuttertime and move a light source in front of the camera, like a flashlight or a light pen. With this light you draw whatever you feel like; your name, grafitti, monsters, etc. Obviously the possibilities are endless.
You’re going to want to use a tripod too, to make sure your photo’s are not going to be blurry. The idea here is that the camera needs to be stable because of the long shuttertime, so you could also use a readily available pile of books or whatever you have lying around that can be used as a makeshift tripod. Have a look at some of the stuff others on the web have produced so far: (click on the photo’s to enlarge them)
Another option is creating a completely dark room or location, where the people in front of the lens preferrably wear black clothing, this way you’ll vanish in the background and will be able to draw with light on a completely black surface. And the great thing is; you can do it indoors, on for example a rainy day, when there’s nothing else to do.
But, like in most of the pictures you see here, it’s a lot of fun to combine the drawing with your surroundings, people, cars or buildings.
The examples you see here are by lightdrawing pool and lichtfaktor Go and check out their work to get some ideas in your head and then of course start making your own light drawings!
This one I find especially funny; it reminds me of the superpowers you’d have in those old mortal kombat style console-games. Of course this one takes some extra editing in Adobe Photoshop. If you look carefully you can still see some part of the person who was in the middle, drawing the light. (Again, click the image to enlarge it)
The next is just brilliant, a guy walking his dog, or monster, in the night time. Again here you can see a second person is doing the actual drawing, so either the first was standing extremely still or they’ve taken a first photo of him standing there with a stretched arm and a second photo while drawing with a light source and combined both photos in photoshop. Your guess is as good as mine.
When I get around to it somewhere in the near future I’ll put up some examples of my own experimenting with light drawing.
