All you need to produce these great images is a torch and a camera that can shoot long exposures of 1 second or more. When you are “painting” the light onto your scene, you are in total control over how the scene is lit. You can “paint” more light into specific areas. You can control the spread and the direction of the light. You can even control the colour of the light in your photograph.
You can be light painting tonight. You will need a relatively dark environment, a subject that doesn’t move and a stable camera position. Using a long shutter speed and shooting in relative darkness allows you to light your subject in a multitude of different ways.
This technique will give you unique images. Each image you take will be different. Like any photographic technique it is only limited by your own imagination.
You can combine light painting with other techniques such as on camera flash, off camera flash, astronomical photography, in-camera movement and creative subject movement. You can create ghost images, multiple images or in-camera montages. You can shoot landscapes, people, still life, buildings plus more.
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