One-week Task

This week's task is a different take on "Light Painting". A 'light painting' digital photograph is created by the movement of a light or lights, using a slow camera shutter speed, to create an image. Because this type of photography requires a long exposure (typically from one second to ten seconds), it is usually done at night or in an unlighted room.

While light painting effects can be simulated with Adobe Photoshop or other image-editing program, light painting is an in-camera photography effect and not achieved through computer manipulation of the image. The effects possible with this purely photographic technique are unlimited and a new area for experimentation now that they are much easier to work with in digital photography.


DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND LIGHT PAINTING

With the immediate feedback of the digital photography LCD screen, light painting photography has come of age. The photographer can quickly adjust exposure, colour balance and focus along with adjusting the movement of lights to make a better composition.

Light painting has always been possible with film based cameras and colour or black and white film. However, because the exposure and the resulting image were so hard to judge (and the photographer could never be sure until the film was developed), this type of photography was very hard to work with until the advent of digital photography.

EXIF data needs to be intact. It helps if you can include the main points (including camera, lens, ISO, shutter speed and aperture) In addition to this you should submit a 300 word evaluation discussing how you attained the final image.

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