Painting with Light

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/89ca22db-a0c1-46b2-a678-d32168b0952b/A185F96A-DC1C-4FFB-B8D1-59582220EB65/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting" href="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting" style="font-size: 11px;">abduzeedo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><H1 class="title">Learning Light Painting</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><H3>1. The tools</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting">  Besides your camera you will need a<B> tripod</B> and a torch</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><H3>2. Light</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><P>I use a little light also used as a key chain. It s powerful enough to draw the characters and can be turned on/off just by pressing a button.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><H3>3. Camera settings</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B> Shutter speed: </B>As long as you need to create the scene.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B> ISO: </B>I usually put it on 100 so I can set the shutter speed on a very slow value and I don t get any noise on my photographs.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Aperture:</B> Set it doing a test shot without drawings, focusing on an element close to what you are going to draw.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Flash:</B> Can be used to fix a person or a moving element in the scene. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>White balance: </B>Set it doing a test shot. Street lighting is usually yellow.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Focus:</B> Obviously on manual if there is not enough light.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><H3>  4. Tips </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Light is your friend, you could use moving lights from cars etc.. for exemple, I did one while a train was passing under a bridge.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Wear dark clothes if you want to lower the chance of being visible on the photograph.   </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/abduzeedo.com/img/FB5C50A5-82CC-4E88-8060-E41C4237E73D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/abduzeedo.com/img/C961E3E2-0E42-477C-AC6F-77BAC7324CFE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/abduzeedo.com/img/D167E45C-5235-4B01-8BED-D2FE95E6077B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/abduzeedo.com/img/D7063C88-1140-4C66-857B-1E935B3AA58A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/learning-light-painting"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/abduzeedo.com/img/E4F6868B-A4A3-414F-9538-1FFD0191770A" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A185F96A-DC1C-4FFB-B8D1-59582220EB65/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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