Just set your camera to have the shutter open as long as possible! Then, if you are light painting a person, try to have them be as still as humanly possible (unless you want a little motion blur?) and run the torch over them a few times to light them, then you can trace around them etc. etc.
It takes a lot of practice, a lot of trial and error to figure out how fast or slow you need to paint the light. I've tried a few myself and once you get the hang of it, it's really amazing the kind of things you can do. I really loved this one photo of SP when they were in Paris. Patrick tookit, they were standing in the middle of the road and had the light trails from the cars around them!
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Date: 2010-06-28 11:12 pm (UTC)It takes a lot of practice, a lot of trial and error to figure out how fast or slow you need to paint the light. I've tried a few myself and once you get the hang of it, it's really amazing the kind of things you can do. I really loved this one photo of SP when they were in Paris. Patrick tookit, they were standing in the middle of the road and had the light trails from the cars around them!
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