Your Passion - My Art - Your Legacy!

My name is John Herrel. Today, I am offering you a unique way of sharing your passion with family, friends and colleagues. Any three dimensional object can be light painted but I am particularly knowledgeable and experienced portraying automotive subjects; your pride-and-joy street car, collectable, your race car, motorcycles and airplanes. I am one of a very few photographers that utilizes light painting to create exceptional automotive art.

My goal is to bring you exceptional images that tell your story and visually document your legacy in a print that you will be proud to display. Creating an artistic image is a combination of envisioning the finished print, lighting the numerous individual images and skillfully combining them into an exceptional print for you. If you have friends and family that might enjoy having their story told in artistic prints, please have them contact me. 

Light Painting

Light painting is a unique and complex photographic process to create one artistic image that is not possible through traditional photography. Light painting has three parts. The first part is understanding your passion and what I can create that shows your passion. The second part is photographing your car(s), bike or airplane. We meet on-site to evaluate different views and you select the one you like best. This starts before dark. After dark I normally take 50 - 100+ images creating the highlights and shadows that I want in the finished image. This is done with you and normally takes 2-3 hours. The third part of the light painting process is post processing the images in Lightroom and Photoshop. I merge, blend and paint the individual images into one unique and artistic image that illustrates your passion and legacy. The post processing normally takes 6-12 hours or more. The “wow” moment is when you hang a large metal or acrylic print on your wall! It is a celebration of your passion and legacy.