Light and Motion Combine for Beautiful Photographs of Kayakers

We recently wrote about painting with light using intentional camera movement. How about painting with light using intentional subject movement? Photographer Stephen Orlando attaches LED lights to his subjects in order to capture the beauty of repeated motions using light:

The above album shows the movement of a kayaker’s paddle through the water. Orlando’s calls these types of images “motion exposure.”

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