I usually set the camera on my tripod then use an exposure of f3.5 or f4.0 for 30 seconds plus on a 10 second timer to give me enough time to sort myself out, make sure you dont linger to much on one spot as it will burn out your image. good spacial awareness is also handy to have either that or someone or something to draw around.
I've done a few both with and without a tripod. I tend to go to bulb mode and use my remote, sorry can't remember how long I hold it for and I tend to just experiment.
Here are a couple I did.
This one I used a tripod for:
And this one was handheld while my hubby swung around a little LED thingie we have to plug into a usb port.
we do this for fun every so often, but I know there are people who do it REALLY well. For this shot, I put a fisheye on my kit lens and my husband and I decided which part we would do. He drew the rocket and I did the words, both using a small single-bulp LED flashlight We did it about 30 times before I actually thought it looked like something :) It's probably one of the most fun kinds of photography to practice! Do you have any that you've tried posted? I didn't see any in your album?
Exposure:30 sec (30/1)
Aperture:f/11.0
ISO Speed:400
Focal Length:28 mm
@simplysnapped@sdpace Glad to share, his photos are absolutely amazing and worth sharing. I love having his photos come up on my wall on Facebook. :D Of course I then do have a certain 8 year old in our house wanting to go out to the middle of nowhere and try it ourselves. lol.
I rest mine on a table, have someone stand in place and auto focus. I then switch to manual focus. I then set ISO to 200, 6 second exposure on timer. also I found that covering the light helps having one bright spot
Okay here are mine, I was out and could not paste at the time
8 seconds, manual focus (after setting it with auto), covered the light until I could see/hear the shutter or this the timer light changed.
Family Effort and wearing all black helped
This one was taken with a headlamp on the wall, and I moved the camera around. I then inverted the photo to get it white and purple.
@asrai@coolgirlsar@sdpace@coolgirlsar@kmrtn6@brumbe@momsta Thanks so much everyone i will check out the pages and hopefully try some stuff one day, im looking at the outline of the car and i don't get how that is possible am i silly i just think if you are standing in front of the camera with the light source then how do you draw around something? does that make sense?
@dessie you just trace it with your flashlight (or torch if you live in that part of the world). You move so fast that the camera doesn't capture you unless you stand still for a second, so just trace around whatever and keep moving! :)
@sdpace Hi Stacey, i did try one this weekend but it was all mirror image because im standing in front of the camera pointing the light source at it is that how other people are doing it? how do you all get it looking the right way? :-)
@floriandra that is very very cool! i know what you are saying but are you facing the thing you are tracing and pointing the light at it? because i thought you had to point the light directly at the camera lens and if that is the case then how are you able to trace around something and see the something too do you know what i mean? :-)
@dessie You can do it either way; however, I'm not sure that you could trace something if you are pointing the light at the camera (unless maybe you are behind the object?). In this photo I was actually standing near the bottom right hand side and was pointing the light directly at the guitar (within about an inch or less away) and tracing it. I had to move fast because tracing a guitar in 30 seconds is harder than it seems.
I just did a 20-second exposure. 10..5mm fisheye at f/2.8. First time I've ever tried light painting. I think you're supposed to use a tiny aperture (i.e. f/16+) if you just want the light itself to show up. Just used a little LED light.
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Here are a couple I did.
This one I used a tripod for:
And this one was handheld while my hubby swung around a little LED thingie we have to plug into a usb port.
Exposure:30 sec (30/1)
Aperture:f/11.0
ISO Speed:400
Focal Length:28 mm
A different one:
8 seconds, manual focus (after setting it with auto), covered the light until I could see/hear the shutter or this the timer light changed.
Family Effort and wearing all black helped
This one was taken with a headlamp on the wall, and I moved the camera around. I then inverted the photo to get it white and purple.
You just have to keep moving and don't keep still for very long to keep the camera from catching you :)