Modern Art
These days art comes in many forms and Photography is becoming a popular art form. One of the images that is popular as modern art is light images.
Using a camera and light to create unique shapes; there is two methods camera tossing or light painting.
The first camera tossing, although this is a quick way to ruin your camera if you drop it, and not highly recommended but it needs to be mentioned; you need to be careful that you catch your camera or hold tightly onto your camera strap so as to not drop it. With this method set your camera to night shooting, in a dark room set up different colored lights. With your colored lights on press your shutter and toss the camera in the air. The shutter speed is slow so as you toss the camera the lights will be blurred and streaky, creating light art.
The next is light painting, set your camera on a tripod with the same settings. Choose colored lights or use small pen flashlights. In a dark room set your camera to point at the area where you will stand and set the self timer. Move the lights in a patterned configuration. The effect will be the same, as you are moving the light the shutter will be slow so your image will be light streaks.
This is was done with a pen flashlight and a red laser pointer. I started at the bottom and moved the 2 back and forth while I moved the lights up.
Camera
Olympus E-500
Tirpod
lens 14-45 mm
settings night scene
Reference:
Popphoto.com
Lifehacker.com
Digital Photography Webblog
camera tossing, light painting, digital photography
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