Initial attempt while using cell phone flashlight as lighting source. Didn’t like the afterglow below the source, but it provided a starting point for focus and exposure length. All photos were taken with the 18-55 mm lens, with auto-focus disabled.
Practicing shapes, designs, and patterns. The light source was a lighter with a small blue led light in the bottom.
Taken with a smell 5 diode LED light. I especially like the last image, which was done accidentally but provides a surreal, ghastly effect and disorienting shadows from the light being covered and moved to different sides of the body.
Designs created while using a lighter. After the initial two photos, I used an object which was held behind the lighter so as to minimize backlighting.
Using 2 long candles.
Attempts at “painting” two medicine balls with light sources. While casting a glow with the blue light, I used the LED light to “flash” the balls from different angles.
For these images, I again employed the small LED flashlight as a “flash” directed toward points on the vehicle, often hitting each wheel for about 1/2 second, and then attempted to use the blue light to outline the vehicle. Exposure time was between 25-30 seconds.