Painting With Light

Picture taken for a light painting assignment given in my small format class.

   I have always been very interested in night photography. I love the thought of being able to see stars travel across the sky in the background of an image while seeing a perfectly lit subject in the foreground. With this last assignment, I found out that this beautiful photography is not nearly as easy as it may seem. It takes long exposures that can last anywhere from thirty seconds to fifteen minutes. During the entire exposure you have to run around lighting different areas of the frame, testing to see how bright the areas need to be and where the flashes should go off. And finally all of this has to be done in complete darkness. It is a look that I hope to test more on my own time and get better at.