Light painting

Light painting is a method that uses long exposure photography and torches to create an image.

 We used torches to draw around people, then scribble around them , to create silhouettes. I enjoyed this, but it was difficult to get  the whole silhouette, because if the torch was not pointing at the camera, it did not record the light, so doing the lower parts we had to crouch down.

To make this picture, I used a torch to draw Alex. I like the final image, because of the movement and continuous line, but it was a very strange thing to do, because you cant see what you have drawn until you look on the camera. I think it looks like there are two people in the picture.

We worked in pairs, one modelling and one drawing, then swapped over. I think all of the different styles of figure are very interesting, and when I put them all together it was very obvious that different torches had been used, to create the different coloured drawings.