Friday, December 12, 2008

Light Painting

I have been wanting to do this since I first learned about it on Strobist site. But I was not able to find his post. What got me excited about it was this post. It was different in that you didn't have a lot of light creating lines and stuff. Check out that his post, really cool. So, last night I started practicing.

I started with using a flash just to see what it would do. Interesting. I only used one flash. With this picture I set the shutter to 30secs and f-stop at 32.


Still using the flash but I am pointing the flash at the couch now.


Now it is time to take a flash light and have some fun. Still at the same settings.


On the next two, I did change my f-stop down to 10. On the first one, you can see me in the photo. The living room was completely darken, though, the Christmas lights were on. So, you can see me moving in the picture.


This time I stood out of the way. Turn out pretty neat.


I got to thinking. I wanted to take some pictures of what I am going to show in the Bridal Fair. I was going to blog about them so, I went and set up these pictures. I like it but not there yet.


I am getting closer but needed to change the diameter of flashlight. I also laid out the pictures different.


Ok, here is the end result. I really like it. It looks like a spot light on each picture. So cool. Camera setting was still at 30 secs f-stop was 11.



To rephrase, the first two pictures, I used one flash and just move it where I wanted it. I then move to a small maglight. For the spotlight affect on those pictures, I used a big maglight. I then turn the spotlight down to a small diameter. I stood on a step stool to keep out of the picture since the light can splash on you. This made the spotlight a little bigger. I would light a picture for 2-3 secs. Don't think you can get it on the first try. I had to play with it to get what I was looking for.

This was so much fun. Get out there and give it a try. Notice that I didn't think of my idea until after I was taking those first pictures. I have so many other ideas now.

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