Paint with light

Grab a torch to shine a light into the darkness

One of the great things about shooting with long exposures is that it gives you time to change the brightness of parts of the scene by flooding them with light. This technique is known as painting with light, as you use light like a paint brush, passing it over objects to brighten them. It’s especially useful for brightening dark objects under a brighter sky, but it can be used more creatively to make glowing patterns or patches of light and shadow. with light. Where possible he likes to work with 30-second exposures, as this gives a decent amount of time for painting the scene without the extra hassle of Bulb mode. If the foreground is fairly close he’ll use an aperture of f8, but drops to f5.6 or f4 if…

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