How to Do Light Painting Photography Like a ProBy Expert Author: Swee Shiong, Chong

Light painting photography is also referred to as a light graffiti or light drawing. Learning to do light painting photography is quite easy. The technique is known to produce seriously awesome images. If you can learn the basics of light photography, then you are on your way to producing awesome pictures like a pro. Light painting photography is definitely a great way to spice up the art of photography and to add something new to the traditional photography.

How does light painting photography work?

This approach to art of photography uses the movement of light to create awe-inspiring images. It may be created in the studios, on the streets, in nature, and mostly produces great results with a darkened room, or at night.

So what do you need?

You would need a camera with manual controls and a darkened room. Next, you will need a tripod to place your camera in fixed position to avoid movement. Lastly, you would also require something like a flash light or any other source of powerful light that you can move around to do your creative artwork.

Ready... Go

Now that you are ready with your camera, tripod stand, flash light, and you are in a dark room; you are ready to do the light painting photography. Before beginning any photography taking, you need to ensure that the camera has been set to the right settings. Place the camera on the tripod stand and turn off image stabilization in case your camera or lens has it, and time it to a minimum of 2 seconds.

If you want to get better the light painting effect, you need to set the shutter speed to a few seconds or even up to a minute if you want to try longer light trails. You can start with few seconds and increase them until you see the light you want. Remember to set the aperture to the smallest you can set to prevent a lot of light hitting the sensor. Ensure that your ISO speed is also set to the lowest possible to reduce noise.

Once the all these are taken care of, you are ready to shoot. You can now write, and draw anything you want (some people likes to draw abstract stuff). Do not be discouraged if you are not able to achieve the desired effect during the first few attempts, as it is a normal phenomenon for beginners. With more practice and perseverance to master the technique itself, your potential in light painting photography is limitless.

Light painting photography is an art; therefore, you are free to create anything that is in your mind. With photography by painting with light, there is no limit to how you can express yourself.

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