Light painting is a photography technique that uses light sources and a long shutter speed to capture traces of movement. The document discusses how the author experimented with shutter speeds between 1-5 seconds to light paint photos in a dark studio using fairy lights, torches, and glow sticks without flash. Shutter speeds of 1 second were too dark and 5 seconds too blurry, so speeds of 2-3 seconds produced the best lit, non-blurry photos.

1. Light painting
Imogen Reeves

2. What is light painting?
• Light painting is a form of photography that
uses light and a long shutter speed meaning
that the camera allows more light in the lens
producing photos such as:

3. Contact sheet

4. Photo 1

5. Photo 1 edited

6. Photo 2

7. Photo 2 edited

8. Photo 3

9. Photo 3 edited

10. Evaluation
• To create these photos I set the camera shutter
speed to 1 second to 3 seconds then 5 seconds.
• I second was not long enough so was too dark,
but 5 seconds was too long as it let too much
light in and was blurry.
• I used fairy lights, torches, glow sticks and the
torch on my phone in the photo shoot.
• The shoot took place in the photography studio.
The lights had to be off and no flash could be
used in order to get the effect I wanted.