Painting with Light

In order to properly paint with light, you have to change your camera settings. First, you must change your ISO to a lower ISO like 100 or 200 in order to reduce noise and have a slow enough shutter speed in order to finish your painting. You also need a small aperture because it will give you a depth of field wide enough to include everything you paint in the focus range. You will also need a very long exposure time so that you can capture the whole painting without cutting it too short.


Painting with light is the process of illustrating or writing with light in a slow exposure photograph.


The best way to capture the painting with light with a camera is using a still camera with manual settings. It works best when the photographer uses a tripod for the camera. A tripod guarantees clear and sharp photos, especially with long exposure time. You need a light source, such as a flashlight, LED, or glowstick. Sparklers or anything else that can set fire is not to be taken to school because it can be a safety hazard. The person who is painting with light must be wearing dark clothes so that they do not appear in the photograph. The last thing you need to paint with light is a dark environment. This makes the painting brighter and more clear.

The photographer used an ISO of 200 and an aperture of f/14.0. He had an exposure time of 1 minute. An LED is used to paint in this photograph. 

The photographer used an ISO of 100 and and aperture of f/9.0. He had an exposure time of 1 minute and 25 seconds. An LED is used to paint in this photograph.

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When painting with light, we had some things that worked while some things did not work. At first, the background was not dark enough, so you could still see the person who was holding the light, but by the end, the background was dark enough. At first, the whole painting could not be seen. We later figured out that we had to have the light facing the camera the whole time. 

This is a good example of painting with light because the whole painting showed up and the painter is not visible in the background. The shutter speed was slow enough to capture the whole cat and the ISO was low enough to have the whole background dar enough. 

This is a bad example of painting with light for many reasons. The ISO was not low enough to make the whole background dark. The subject and background are also blurry. The computer next to the subject is on, which is producing another piece of light in the dark room, so it showed up in the picture.