How to shoot light painting photography

Light painting photography method is as follows:

To put it bluntly, light painting is to record the movement track of the light source with a long shutter time. The light source (such as flashlight) is a brush and the camera is a drawing board.

I. Equipment requirements

(1) Camera with manual shutter time adjustment; ?

(2) There must be a tripod or a table to keep the camera stable;

If you want to shoot a satisfactory light painting effect, you must have the above two points

Second, the shooting steps

1. Prepare light painting artifacts such as flashlights.

Before taking light painting, prepare a flashlight, and then wrap a colorful mirror cleaning cloth on the flashlight with a rubber band.

In this way, the light from the flashlight will have color, and this is our "brush".

Shoot in the dark.

If you shoot in the daytime or in a place with strong light, the moving track of the light source will not appear, so try to find a weak light environment to shoot.

Keep the camera stable

It takes a long shutter time to take a photo, so a tripod or a table must be used to keep the camera stable.

Pure hand-held camera shooting 100% blur, even a slight jitter will ruin your hard-earned painting results!

4. Tune to the TV file with ISO 100.

Tune to the TV (that is, shutter priority mode, also denoted by S in some cameras).

The specific shutter time should be determined according to what you want to draw.

The more and more complex the content you want to draw, the longer the shutter time. Ants set 15 here.

After setting the shutter time, press the shutter and draw the pattern you want with a flashlight. When the shutter time ends, the light painting is completed.

These are the basic steps needed for light painting, aren't they simple?