Long exposure photography
All of you have seen this amazing star-trail pictures or the waterfalls where the water looks so soft. This are two examples of the long exposure photography and there are so much more. The exposure time is longer than normal. This "longer" could be 2 seconds or 30 minutes. The camera has to stand still during the photo.
Lightpainting
What's lightpainting ?
For lightpainting you use the long exposure photography. During the shutter is open, you could paint with light or several shining elements i.e. flashlights or fire.
What do I need ?
This is the list of the basic equipment I use:
| camera | Canon Eos 60d |
|---|---|
| lens | 17-85mm (default) |
| tripod | Very old one from my father |
| remote shutter | JJC |
my camera on the tripod
- flashlights
- sparklers
- steel-wool
- chain of lights
- lightsabers or other shining toys
- and more flashlights with blades
- ...
You could take nearly everything. At the right are some of the tools I use.
Here are some of my lightpainting photos
Maybe you could recognize the tools of the photo above
this is called an orb
It's to cold and it's raining, I can't go outside.
That's no excuse not to try, you could even lightpaint at home in your room.
Let's talk about the camera settings:
| exposure time | normaly between 10 and 60 seconds |
| aperture | depends on the light you paint with, between 4 and 11 |
| ISO | depends on the light around and your camera, between 200 and 1250 |
this is called a dome
Have you recognize the tools ?
I think that wasn't the last article about lightpainting, I have more photos I want to share and I'll discribe the technique for orbs and domes in detail.
Feel free to ask in the comments or tell me what I could improve.
You want to know who I am: read my introduceyourself post
Bye 📷