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What is light painting?

Light painting: also called light painting photography. Light painting

As the name implies, it is a photographic work with light painting as the creative means. If you want to create a particularly illusory or interesting light painting, you can also shake the camera deliberately, but the effect will be difficult to predict, so you need to try more, which is another advantage of digital cameras.

In order to get more creative effects, we can make more changes in light sources and filters. For example, the author uses fireworks as the light source, and can also paint with lights.

Lighter lamp, candle lamp, flashlight lamp, fiber lamp ...; Various filters can be used, such as starlight lens, annular soft-focus lens, water-drop soft-focus lens, fog lens and local soft-focus lens, and various colors, such as yellow, purple, orange, yellow-green, green, light blue, blue, light red and deep red. Light painting photography usually uses a black background to make the drawing more vivid and prominent, but it can also be taken at dusk, so that the light painting works combining environmental lighting effects and scenery will have unique characteristics.