From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
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Light painting: behind the camera
From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
Light painting: behind the camera
We've worked pretty much exclusively with natural light in this course. You've seen a couple of flash examples, but for the most part, we're just working with the light that we find. As you've seen very often when working in low light, you're working with a very long shutter speed. The shutter is open for a long time so that the camera can gather up as much light as possible to create an image. While it's gathering, you can actually manipulate that light that's there. You can add more of your own and create a painting effect. I don't mean an image that looks like a painting, but you can paint things with light to control what's illuminated in your frame. We're going to do that right now. You probably can't see it right now, but we've got this cool assortment of gnarled twisted trees here, and sitting in them middle of them is Heather. And what I want to do is create an image where she's lit up and the trees are not. Now you might think, well, why don't you just put a flash on your…
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