Picturesque Friday 8 – Light Painting

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We are celebrating Festival of Lights in India, hence today’s theme is light paitnig. I tried this technique during Covid-19 period. Due to lockdown, going out was prohibited. Hence we tried & mastered this technique in our housing society itself.

Light painting is a photographic procedure that takes long exposures of the subject using moving light sources or the camera moves. The camera’s shutter speed is extended to allow long-exposure for imagery to be composed over a longer period. For me, Light Painting was more than just pushing the button and accepting the outcome. I started engineering the images just using some sparklers or the phone. During a long exposure, it is up to me or you to influence the outcome while the shutter is open. What excites me is that every result is unique and special in its way. Beauty and taste is as always in the eye of the beholder.

It’s also known as Light Art, LAPP, or Light Graffiti by some. In summary, it means moving a light source with modified camera settings along an exposure path. There are many kinds of light painting: light painting a subject and light painting your environment, light drawing, etc.

Light Painting
Light Painting

Thank you dear readers for stopping by

Enjoy the fun of light paitning.


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Published by Mukund Karadkhedkar

Engineer by profession and Wildlife Photographer by passion. Loves nature.

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