Festival of light (light painting)

I had two sessions to experiment with light painting which is something I have done several times before and it's something I have always liked doing and I love seeing how the images turn out. The first session we worked in small groups , I worked with Jennii, Danny , Chloe & Sharrah. We turned off the lights and used the glow sticks and fairy lights to 'paint' the light. Danny was in front of the camera whilst the rest of us were behind it. He used the lights we passed him to create different shapes and movement whilst we had the camera on a slow shutter to create fascinating imagery. 

I researched photographers that used light painting and used my light painting images from these sessions & my research into my light and time project too.

The second session we had was my favourite out of the two. As a group we all collectively used more equipment and the whole class worked together.

We all created half a circle with our cameras (although I was using Jennii's camera as she sat out during the lesson due to a headache from the lights) all facing towards the light box, Danny , Ellie & Jake thought out the lesson volunteered to play around with the lights whilst the rest of us took photo's. I secured the best spot in the semi circle as the camera I was using was facing directly towards the lights so I got very direct front on images.

What we used to create light;

External Camera Flashes x2

Fairy Lights x2

Glow sticks (lots of them)

To defuse the light from the external flashes Danny and Ellie covered them with paper.

My favourite images from the session that I took are;