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Objective: Students will create a light painting by using a slow shutter speed in tv autoexposure mode.


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Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source (ie: flashlight) or by moving the camera.  

By moving the light source, the light can be used to selectively illuminate parts of the subject or to "paint" a picture by shining it directly into the camera lens.  Light painting requires a slow shutter speed, usually a second or more. 


camera settings

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  • Use a tripod
  • Exposure Mode: Tv
  • Shutter Speed: as long as you need to create your light painting (experiment with speeds from 3 seconds to 10 seconds)
  • ISO: 100
  • Focus: Manual (have your subject stand where the light painting will be happening before taking the shot and focus on them)
  • Flash: on if you want to capture your subject in the photo with the light, off if you want only the light to stand out.
  • Self-Timer: Set to 10 seconds- so that you can shoot the image as well as be in it or create the light effects yourself. 


Ideas to try:

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Light Graffiti

Write out your name or a word using a flash light.

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Outline someone!

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Outline an object

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Experiment!  Try different things!

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Draw something!

Consider how your drawing will interact with the environment!

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Get creative!  Add something to your subject- like the angel wings and halo in this example!

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Shine light on your face for a ghostly portrait.  You can turn off the light, change your position and shine it on yourself again to create multiple images of yourself in one photo.

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Be creative, have fun!!


Your Assignment:

Use Tv mode and the camera settings listed above to create light paintings in a dark room.  Experiment!  Try out lots of different techniques and ideas.  Try writing out words, outlining people or objects, drawing pictures with light, making a self-portrait, etc.

See schoology.com for instructions on what will be turned in.

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