Painting with Light

Step 12 Example: Highlighting 2

This image uses the the same idea as the last example in that the 'painting' done here is to highlight the subject of the image. In this case it was the stop sign. I turned the white balance on my camera as low as it would go to make the yellow streetlights seem white and to suck the colors out of the background. I then used my flashlight to illuminate the stop sign for about two seconds. Note the texture of the reflection from the sign having graffiti scrubbed off of it.

Camera was set to a 15 sec exposure at ISO 200 and f/5.6

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Comments

[Hustlerzlife]

There is a photographer, Eric Curry, that is doing some new stuff like painting with light. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.americanprideandpassion.com">American Pride and Passion</a> Most of his stuff is cool machines and vehicles. <br/>

[mainecoonmaniac]

I remember close to 20 years ago an innovative photographer Aaron Jones creating a light painting craze in commercial photography. He created this light painting gadget that used a xenon bulb, fiber optics and a shutter system to paint light. It's a beautiful technique, but at one point was over used.