Light Painting

Light painting is really easy to do and it's one of the things I enjoy most because I have always seen photographs of it and never had a clue how to go about it and now I do and I think it's great and you can paint a picture of absolutely anything that you want! All you need is complete darkness, a light and your camera on a long shutter speed, preferably on a tripod so it's completely still whilst somebody is doing the light painting. I've had a go at, at home with my dad and friend and I think the results are actually really good. However, I still want to complete the task of trying to make 'orbs' with the light, here's an example...

I think this looks really good and quite mystical. I've yet to try it out but with light painting, there's so many things you can do and just from searching it in google, you get tons of ideas that can easily be done.

You can be really creative and most of the time, even if what you were trying to do doesn't work out, it will almost definitely still look really good!

I tried out some light painting at home and I think they turned out well.

I like the one on the right better because I just feel like it's more 'in your face' it's brighter and there's more going on, however I also like the one on the right! I'm not sure what my friend was trying to achieve but regardless they both worked out well!

  I also gave light painting a go, using a street light and I like the effect it appears to have, with speckles in the light itself. It reminds me of a firework in mid explosion. I'm not sure what it is about the photograph, I just really like it and light painting is all about experimenting, as is the rest of photography.