Indoor Painting with Light
The thing I love about indoor light painting is that it’s very simple to do! All you need is a tripod, a flashlight, a camera, and something to take a picture of. This kind of style also falls under the Long Exposure Photography category. In order to capture a long exposure shot while using light painting, I simply left my shutter open for about 15 seconds (this was for every light painting photo you see below), and quickly shined my flashlight over the objects I wanted lit. You have to be careful though because if you use too much light while light painting, everything might end up being lit or perhaps too lit. It’s not a very good long exposure shot when that happens. That can either make the image look completely bright to where you can’t see anything, or incredibly uninteresting. It can look as if you just used a flash instead of a flashlight. I had to try light painting a few different times before I was able to capture the images posted below. Once you get the hang of it, you can really start getting creative!
Interested in seeing more Indoor, Long Exposure, Light Painting? Check out some of Frederic Paulussen’s work here!