Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Painting with light

Technique: Set the camera for a long exposure time and move the light in "strokes", like a paint brush, where you want depending on how you want the light to appear in your photograph. 

Definition: Light painting is a photography technique in which designs or words are made by moving a hand-held light source using a long exposure time.

Tools: DSLR Camera, Tripod, and different types of lights.

Ideas: Writing my name, drawing a heart, drawing an infinity sign, etc.

Examples:



Monday, April 2, 2012

Camera Raw


I increased the exposure.
I increased the reds, oranges, and yellows.
I increased the number of pixels, it would be clearer.
I darkened my finger a little bit to draw focus more towards the flame.