Painting With Light

Painting with light, was setup in the kitchen at my home with a tripod and using a Nikon D5100 with an 55-200 mm lens ,

the props that were used on this occasion were some Teddies, glass bowl and oranges to give the effect of miniature Jack Of Lanterns as it was Halloween when the shot was taken, seemed most appropriate ate the time,

Simple light sources were used as led torches,

The camera was set up on the tripod and an exposure of 8 seconds under complete blackness with aperture of F5.6

A painting with light as shown below was completed in a studio with a blue filter over a torch phone

 

I found these as a great guide to achieve good results in painting with light

 

Don’t try to paint everything with the same light.  It will look really odd and flat.  

 

  Chose a dimmable flashlight with an adjustable beam for best results. 

 Many flashlights have adjustable beams, such as Mag-lights, but few flashlights can be dimmed so that you can use just the right amount of light on every part of the photo. 

 

 Be careful with noise.   but long exposures also create more noise. 

You’ll need to take more than one photo.  .