Light Painting

The simplicity of the extended shutter is capable of producing so much in the way of creative ideas and possibilities that it seems never ending. We took a period last Friday and hung out in the theater to do some light painting, but the theater was so dark we discovered that we had some problems around focus and length of shutter opening. Plunging ahead, there were some interesting photos that resulted from our experiments, but the smooth line and the inherent possibilities with color (we used a black light on the striped shirt that Clara wore) became a focus of the time we had together.

I also set up a camera for some additional work in the classroom this morning and spent some effort to make the light more three dimensional in appearance as it got closer and farther away from the camera lens. Here are a few of what I consider the more interesting ones.