Photo Challenge Week 5: Paint with Light

This week’s photo challenge is paint with light. I have never successfully painted with light before. So this time around, I wanted to do my best.

I was thinking of trying this photo challenge by myself. However, I felt that maybe that way would be more difficult. So, I asked my brother to, Kevin Alberto, to assist me. My brother owns these gloves with lights on the fingertips. Kevin waved his hands around which eventually would create shapes from the lights.

The next thing I did was the set up. Kevin and I went to the garage because the garage is the darkest room in the house. I grabbed a tripod for my camera. The reason for the tripod is because the shutter speed is going to be a long one, and I did not want my camera to shake during the shoot.

After I set the tripod and camera up, I set my settings. I used the ISO of 100, and for the shutter speed, I tried 1.6 seconds all the way to 10 seconds. I found the 5 seconds worked the best. The f-stop was at 5.0 because I did not want to see the background.

Then, I just told Kevin to have fun with it. The photos that are up above are my favorites. The first one has that eerie look to it; as if it’s a spirit or a ghost. The other two, the heart and the peace sign, are also my favorite because of how crisp the lines are and the meaning behind those symbols.