Ring Photo with Light Painting

matthew.townsley · Apr 9, 2014

After seeing the previous post of light painting, with the help of my sister's camera, we gave light painting a quick go.
I was quite impressed with the depth of detail, just thought I'd share what resulted from it.

Cheers.

monk · Apr 11, 2014

how long of an exposure time for this pic ?

vilts · Apr 11, 2014

Looks nice, but I would set the exposure -1 stop for a starters. Seems that highlights are blown...

matthew.townsley · Apr 20, 2014

Sorry for late reply, we played around between 4 and 8 second exposures

Sam · Apr 21, 2014

I think you should try again. This isn't a particularly good photo.

matthew.townsley · Apr 22, 2014

Any pointers?

I know it's not a great photo, I just thought I'd pop it up to share what even a quick look into the way it was done produced.

ahenson · Apr 23, 2014

I used a longer exposure (16 or 30) when I played around with it, Matthew. So far, using my iPhone was the easiest since I could get a live view of the light exposed areas to avoid overexposure. I also diffused and colored the light to get the brightness and temperature I wanted. I took a translucent white plastic bag, colored on it with an orange marker, and then folded the plastic over several times; you don't want too much color. Try that over the light with the longer exposure and see if that helps.

Beathard · Apr 23, 2014

The light makes the piece look to flat. Wish I knew how to fix it. I still can't take very good pictures.

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