Light Painting
In Greek the word "photograph" means:
photo - light
graph - writing
This literally translates as writing (or drawing) with light. Which is what my group and I have done for this unit.
photo - light
graph - writing
This literally translates as writing (or drawing) with light. Which is what my group and I have done for this unit.
Light painting photography has been around since 1914 when Frank Gilbreth first used it to study the motion of manufacturing and factory workers. Another example of a photographer using light painting in their work is Gjon Mili; He captured a famous series of images of Picasso drawing with light. He also experimented with multiple exposures by setting of the flash repeatedly during a long exposure. In Light painting the artist leaves the shutter of the camera open for a long period of time and then using various lights to create the colour or design within the frame. Shutter speeds for light paintings can vary from 5 seconds up to 5 hours or more. |
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Below are some of the images my group an I made in school using a DSLR on a long exposure, a flash gun and several hand held lights.
What I did:
The DSLR camera was attached to a tripod so that it would be completely still during the long exposures. The camera was set on manual mode so we could choose the shutter speed. Another thing we experimented with was the ISO and aperture settings. Another thing my group experimented with was flashing the light more than once which exposed the subject multiple times. Below is an example of one we made: |
Editing:
Some of the images we made didn't turn out very well; some were over exposed, or the setting on the camera were not the right ones. An example of a picture that didn't work well is this one below, it was one of the first images we took and so we were still experimenting trying to find the right ISO and the amount of time we needed. These are the settings we used first of all: |
Once we had finished taking the photos I used iPhoto on the Macbook Pro computer to make the background of the picture darker so that the subject would stand out more.
These are the settings I changed the picture to:
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