Light painting mixes performance with photography

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When the sun goes down in St. Petersburg, Florida, the lights and cameras go up.

Photographers use models and lighted tubes for an artistic technique called light painting.

"Light painting is basically like a long exposure shot. So you'll have a subject in the foreground and then behind you'll wave a tube you can have it clear or it can be a color with a flashlight in, so it's kind of like a makeshift light saber actually," said model Mallory Jones.

"You're in the moment kind of whatever feeling strikes you that's the position that you hit and then the photographer you're kind of balancing that out with them," said model Rachel Ledford.

Each picture is a unique work of art.

"Every image that you capture is not going to be like anything else or anybody else's capturing," said photographer Mark Rapien.

To see more of Mark Rapien's light painting photography, visit https://www.markrapien.com/Pages/Portfolio/Light-Paintings/.

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