Mixing strobe & continuous modes for light-painting photography

How I go from strobe to continuous within the same exposure? There are only a few flashlights that can do this. The one I'm using in this tutorial is the Olight Warrior 3 (not the 3s which doesn't work well for light-painting!). I’ll make a separate post with the 5 models I own which have this feature. It’s interesting to note that this "pressure switch” is not made for us, light-painters. This goes on a riffle and is used in continuous mode to see the dear, and in strobe mode to make the deer dizzy 😅

Episode 237 is all about this technique and yes, we do show in video how we achieve this.

The pressure switch I’m using to go from continuous to strobe mode on the flashlight

These are 3 examples where I’m using this technique (all using the “deep flower” shape)

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Inspiration from the community

Here are a couple of amazing light-painting images I noticed this week on my feed

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Thanks all! In the next post, I’ll show the 5 flashlights I own that can do strobe/continuous using a pressure switch :)