Painting With Light
Painting with light is often called Light Painting, and is a form of photography in which the photographer reduces the shutter speed on his/her camera, and then draws something in the air with light, while the picture is being taken. The word photography can be broken down into two words: photo and graph. Photo is Latin for light, and graph is latin for drawing, or writing. So, the word photograph literally means light drawing.
How to paint with light
To paint with light, you will need a manual camera with a flash, a dark room, and any amount of torches or lights. first, you need to lower the shutter speed on the camera, so that the shutter will open for roughly ten seconds, giving you time to paint the image. Coordinate the flash with the opening of the shutter, and press the button. the image taken at the moment the flash goes off will be still. After the flash, paint an image with the torch, making sure the torch is facing the camera at all times. you can also turn off the torch momentarily, to stop the line and start somewhere else, like taking the brush off of the canvas. after the shutter closes, it is safe to turn on the lights and take a look at your image!
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Below this text are some attempts that me and my group made at light painting, although a few of the didnt quite pan out the way we wanted them to. for example, the flashes of green are caused by too much exposure, and so are brighter than anything else in the picture. Another exposure error is the photograph where the lights are clear, but the actual image is dark and faded. The one that i am most proud of is the picture of a man with lasers emerging from his hands. This was successful because the exposure was just right, and the image is clear.