Light Magic

BY neave, February 12, 2010

Light painting, also known as light drawing or light graffiti is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with hand-held light sources. The follow images are the work of Jan Wöllert and Jörg Miedza from Germany.

The light can either 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 sufficiently slow shutter speed, usually a second or more. Like night photography, it has grown in popularity since the advent of digital cameras because they allow photographers to see the results of their work immediately.

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  1. Posted by: Amod Malvankar on February 15, 2010 at 11:18 am

    Its very nice.Seeing this Photography technique for the first time in my Life.And its not photo- shopped is a big surprise for me.

  2. Posted by: Lucy Tonic on February 27, 2010 at 7:24 am

    sick.

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