 Look who zoomed the wrong way. All right, that's a little bit better. Hello, my beautiful internet friends. Welcome back to my channel. I don't know if you notice what is in the background behind me, but those are some changes of clothing. Now, what could we be doing with that? Today's video is a really unique one and one that I am so very personally excited to see how it turns out. I have a friend who does incredible, very unique photography. I had never seen anything like this in my life. It's called light painting and he asked me to be a model for him. I think we can kind of do cool stuff like with my prosthetic leg and dresses and stuff. First of all, I am super excited and this is just gonna be awesome. But secondly, I'm really looking forward to this from a mental health and personal perspective as well because I've noticed the more that I can get comfortable seeing myself and seeing myself on camera and portrayed in a positive way, the more comfortable I get with my own body, especially lately. He makes such cool art with the photography that he does and there's no Photoshop involved and you'll understand what I mean in just a few minutes into this video. I think this is gonna be a pretty cool day. So, let's head in. My boots and briefcase are waiting at the door. We just got here. You ready for some light painting? Oh, you know. Oh, we are so lit right now. Like literally. Lit. So lit. So this is my friend Russell. He actually gave a TED Talk on what we're about to do. I've linked it in the description down below. It's super, super cool and you should check it out but I can pretty much guarantee you haven't seen photography like this before. It's pretty amazing. How'd you come to light painting? Trying to learn how to do fire performers and shooting them. Then assembled across my friend Eric Pare. I saw his stuff and I'm like, well, this is all I wanna do now and that's how that story is. With your suspenders. Oh, you know. I love it. Woo! Classy AF. Ninja mode. Okay. I can clearly see you. You can't even ninja. Not here. Oh. Wow. Can you go to some other place? Love it. Perfect. It was amazing. Okay. So, we have the light. So the most important thing is if you move your face and stuff while I'm backlighting you that's okay. Got it. Okay. You don't wanna move your body because then I'll see shadows. You're okay. Three, two, one. I just have a flashlight and I have this too. Okay. This is a custom tube I had made but you can get these at Home Depot for like $3.50. Handy named and remote. So I have that connected to my camera. Normally when the lights are off, okay, this is the only light you will see. The cameras are gonna pick it up. So then I get behind Joe here and she cannot move. If she moves, she will become an over person. We've already seen it. It's happened already, guys. You know me. So basically what's gonna happen is I'm gonna do this with the lights on and I'm gonna do it with the lights off. So I'm gonna make start my exposure, make the circle around her and then say I wanna do some stuff that comes up like this and then comes up like this and that would be the end of the exposure. So now we're gonna do the lights off. All right. Here we go. Two, one. I'm so tired, so fed up of you messing with my buzz. You shut down, had enough. I'm just looking for that rush. I'm so tired, so fed up. Touch, feel our bodies drifting up. Okay, so this is basket wrap paper that I have around this. It's just iridescent paper and I have the acrylic blade with the light blade connector and flashlight. So badass looking. Let's get trusty, and watch your eyes. Play lightsabers with. Oh yeah. So we got some seriously freaking awesome light painting done. I feel like a very cool sparkly floral monster. This is a blast. Yeah, I think it's on. Thank you so much. This is so cool. So Russell actually does freaking fantastic light painting professionally. So where can they find you? You can find me on Instagram at light and lens and then also the Facebook or you can check out my website at lightandlens.com. And seriously, please do. This stuff is so badass as you've seen and it's also a lot of fun to do if you live in the area. I mean consider booking a session. It's pretty cool. It's pretty fun. I'd highly recommend it. Huge thank you to my patrons who make these videos possible. As always, I truly appreciate you guys. I love you. I'm thinking of you. And I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye guys.