Light painting and my not-studio

[petemac]

My obsession as of late is light-painting. I am sure that a lot of you have tried it but for some reason I hadn't thought I could pull it off on film. Now with digital i try everything i can and light painting has struck my fancy. I thought maybe if you haven't tried it you would reconsider...for me its some of the best fun i have ever had with a camera.

Since i have not yet made my sketchy-homemade-gonna break- remote shutter release i just use a 30 second exposure. I paint in with a small mag-lite. As you can see from my really bad studio shot, it takes nothing to make a nice place for a light painting. Since i don't have a tripod my camera rests on the rolling chair in the studio shot. It is sort of creepy to be in the attic of an odd barn with the lights turned off but so far so good. The background is a sail i scrounged.


I hope maybe a few people will comment. Maybe a few will even try it out?

-pete