r/lightpainting
ActiveLight Painting, Light Graffiti and Long Exposure Photography
A reddit for everything regarding Light Painting, Light Graffiti, Light Stencils, light Art and Long Exposure Photography. Please subscribe and start submitting. Long exposure photos using torches, LEDs, EL wire, light stencils, flash guns, gels or whatever emits light or can shape it to create beautiful fleeting light art. Usually done at night but can also be done during daylight hours using lens filters that drastically cut the amount of light hitting the sensor.
Members
9,908
as of February 2025
Last post
today
September 27, 2026
Posts (30 days)
20
Created
2009
October 18, 2009
Total posts
3.6K
archived
Total comments
6.4K
archived
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r/lightpainting had 9,908 members as of February 2025, the most recent archive crawl of its subscriber count.
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r/lightpainting was created on October 18, 2009.
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