Light painting

Had some great fun in the studio today with Gemma and Sue experimenting with 'light painting'. Firstly the camera was placed on a tripod,  I then set a long exposure (initially 6 seconds). After turning off the lights in the studio and beginning the exposure we then proceeded to dance around in front of the camera with our torches (one LED torch, one with a standard bulb) , the results were fantastic.

We also lit some sparklers and interspersed these with the torches to create an interesting effect. A longer exposure was set for these shots as the sparklers did not give off that much light.

I was really pleased with my first attempt at light painting. The backgrounds are very black and the image of the lights are very clearly focussed. In my opinion the images are works of art in their own right.

After finishing the light painting Gemma decided to take a photo of her face with the torch pointing at it, these looked great so we decided to take a number of pictures of varying exposures. The results are below..... very sinister!

We took this one stage further by zooming the camera in and out of the subject during the exposure. This resulted in an even spookier picture....

Well that's it for now I hope you like the pictures. We're off to the 'Stoke Your Fires' moving image festival in Stoke tomorrow so will be reporting on that in my next blog.