Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Painting with Light - 'Illumination' Technique

This technique works well when there's very little natural light available, and involves using a torch with a wide beam to illuminate large areas of your scene at a time.
Open your shutter and then run around your scene, stopping to shine your torch on the objects or areas that you want illuminated for a few seconds at a time. You might need to take a few exposures to help you judge exactly how long to shine the torch for, but try to give each object in the scene roughly the same illumination time so that they all show up well.
Also remember to stay out of the line of sight of the camera when you've got the torch on or you'll leave a silhouette in front of the object you're illuminating.

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