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Step 4Paint!
Once you have everything set up we can finally have some fun.
Press the button on your camera and start tracing and 'painting' your subject with your light source.
Literally think of your light as a brush that adds detail, brightness, and color.
The longer you illuminate and area the brighter it becomes. The same goes for areas that are illuminated more than once. Each pass of the light with cause that area to be brighter.
Play with the direction you paint from, strokes, turning your light on and off, etc.
Feel free to walk out into the frame of the image. As long as you are not directly illuminated you won't show up in the image.
For the image below I used a 30 second exposure and 'painted' with an LED flashlight. I 'painted' each side of the tree by standing about 10 feet from the tree on each side
Press the button on your camera and start tracing and 'painting' your subject with your light source.
Literally think of your light as a brush that adds detail, brightness, and color.
The longer you illuminate and area the brighter it becomes. The same goes for areas that are illuminated more than once. Each pass of the light with cause that area to be brighter.
Play with the direction you paint from, strokes, turning your light on and off, etc.
Feel free to walk out into the frame of the image. As long as you are not directly illuminated you won't show up in the image.
For the image below I used a 30 second exposure and 'painted' with an LED flashlight. I 'painted' each side of the tree by standing about 10 feet from the tree on each side
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