Painting With Light

This post is for an entry in Hummie's Photography Challenge: Focus on Light.

Painting with light is a technique where you use a flashlight to "paint" light over objects, during a very long exposure. Sometimes the flashlight might be modified to produce certain effects like using colored gels, narrowing or expanding the beam of light, etc. You can find my photos in my Painting With Light Gallery.

My daughter helped me on a number of these shots, both in setting up the shots, and doing some of the flashlight work. My two favorites are

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which involves both light and shadows (and a bit of dust, showing that my housekeeping skills aren't as polished as my photography and digital scrapping skills!) and

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which was a kind of fluke but I love it! One other favorite shot that fits with Hummie's challenge is

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I love the lighting in this shot but the shot itself is a type of double exposure, also a fluke! You can read about it in the description on the page.