From the course: Landscape Photography: Night Landscape

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Light painting with a flash

Light painting with a flash

From the course: Landscape Photography: Night Landscape

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Light painting with a flash

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- So the clouds have cleared up here in the Anza-Borrego Desert, and I'm set up at another dinosaur sculpture not far from the first one that we photographed. And this one's really cool. This is two dinosaurs about to like clash in combat. It's very dynamic and dramatic. And so the plan is I wanna use my flash to do some light painting on the dinosaurs. And the way this works is you set your overall exposure with the camera to get the landscape and the sky looking good. With flash painting, or with the flash unit, you wanna make the exposure long enough to give you time to go through and hit all the places you need to do. So there's a lot of rehearsal, almost, in this sort of light painting, where you kind of have to walk it through, do some tests, and figure out where you need to be to properly hit all the subjects with light. Now right now, we have a light on me so you can see me here, but once I trigger the shutter and I start light painting the dinosaurs, we're gonna turn that…

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