Black Cat Loc: Melbourne Australia

Still calling myself a beginner after 2 years, but thought I would try light painting. Surprising it looks harder than it is. I was amazed at the results.

alissaspieces Loc: New York

Awesome!! I just bought sparklers a few weeks ago with the intention of trying this out. WHat did you use? Could you describe the process a bit! Your pics look cool! Thanks!

alissaspieces Loc: New York

Awesome!! I just bought sparklers a few weeks ago with the intention of trying this out. WHat did you use? Could you describe the process a bit! Your pics look cool! Thanks!

Black Cat Loc: Melbourne Australia

Thank you Alissaspieces for your comments. I tried sparklers first, didn't have great success, but it was my first attempt. I found they shed more light than I wanted and you could see all around them. I was going for the black background. For these photos, I had small led flashlights, and covered one in red cellophane. My daughter did the patterns and words. I set my camera on Manual, and set shutter to "bulb" I found a low iso worked best, 200 for these. Aperture was 5. I have added one of my first attempt with the sparklers. I also found one of my led flashlights far too bright, the cellophane covered one worked best. Hope this works for you. Others here may have more or better ideas.

Nessguide Loc: Montreal,Canada

I love the perfect circles...well done and yes it is hard. I had a modicum of luck using kiddie party favors from the Dollar Store. All kinds of light gizmos although not all stores carry the same stuff. These were a pack of four separate little finger led lights ,red,green,yellowish and blue, with attached elastic and you wore them like a ring...so you could do one colour or a combination. They lasted a surprisingly long time...lot of fun for a buck.
If I remember,these were about a 5 second exposure...focusing etc,done ahead and tripod of course. Twirled the lights behind the glasses.
The rainbow fluorescent wands,and the fluorescent bracelets are funky too.