For our fourth shooting assignment, I decided to try light painting. After seeing the demo, I thought it seemed really cool and I wanted to try it out for myself. I had a bunch of ideas I wanted to try out, but it was a lot more difficult than I anticipated. It's really hard to 'draw' with light, because you can't exactly see where you're moving so you have no idea how it's going to look until you look at the photo. For some reason, I could only find two flashlights so I could only work with two 'brush sizes.' I kept setting the shutter speed for longer than I needed to 'draw' the scene so I would end up sitting in the dark for 30 seconds. Photos kept coming out as too dark or too bright, or the shapes would look distorted. It was really frustrating, but I enjoyed it, and I'd like to try it again sometime. I think it'd be cool to try painting something like hieroglyphics or Japanese characters. I had to wait until it was night so that it was dark out and recruited my sister as a subject. She was irritated and tired but also thought that the pictures looked neat. In my best photo, I tried to make it seem like she was holding a ball of light, sort of magical. Final Product I photoshopped it to remove some orange light near the right side, ad adjusted the levels to make the light and hands more clearly visible. Original Photo Shutter Speed: 15 seconds Aperture: f 4.5 ISO: 100 Through this assignment, I learned a bit more about how light behaves and affects a camera. I learned how to control how much enters the camera and how to manipulate parts of the photo through using a long shutter speed. Additional photos:
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Spencer S.
10/22/2018 05:27:10 pm
Really beautiful photos. I love what you've done with light painting. If there was one thing that could be improved, you could have put the hands more in focus Getting them in focus is really hard , but it could have made the photo a little bit better. Good Job!
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Max Bauer
10/23/2018 06:10:20 am
Your light painting is so impressive! I really love how you evoke the idea of magic by putting the light in between the hands. Of course, the photo is a little blurry, but it's quite beautiful nonetheless. Great work.
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Livi M
10/23/2018 07:11:06 am
I really like your pictures. They are very cool. I think you should have found a slightly darker place to do it in as you can see the building in the background of some. Overall, these turned out very well.
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