Light Painting: Photographic magic!

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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.

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Practicing shapes, designs, and patterns.  The light source was a lighter with a small blue led light in the bottom.

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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.

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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.

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Using 2 long candles.

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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.

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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.

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