Light Painting!!


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dart1963

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new toys!

So, my red laser came in... and my shutter release (it has a lock, so I can expose myself... er, expose my pics for any length of time :D )

my wife trying to spell her name... that didn't work out to well... :eek:


me playing around with both lasers in my hand (gonna play some more later! :))














 
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Marthy

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That's really cool stuff! I need to look into that. So all I need to do is take a pic a very low shutter speed? I don't know much about tech details and pictues
 
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kevin8198

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Marthy said:
That's really cool stuff! I need to look into that. So all I need to do is take a pic a very low shutter speed? I don't know much about tech details and pictues
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Just make sure you have a camera that you can adjust the shutter speed, or lock the shutter open. Set it to shutter priority and play around with the shutter times. The darker it is outside the longer you can have the shutter open for. Then make sure you have a very sturdy tri pod, or just make sure the camera doesn't get bumped at all. Night time pics work best because as the shutter is open it absorbs any light around, the more light the more it'll look like a blinding glare.

I just bought a Canon ELPH point and shoot, it was only like $250 but it is NICE!! It's really fun, next thing I want to do is point it at traffic to get streaking lights everywhere. Another idea is to point it at the stars and see if you can see trails coming off them, you would need to have it open for a while to do that though.

]Good luck, can't wait to see what you come up with.:D
 
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dart1963

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kevin8198 said:
Very cool Dart!! This is my new favorite hobby :D Especially when I'm drunk :rolleyes:
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I can neither confirm nor deny the influence of alcohol during the shooting of these pics :)

Marthy said:
That's really cool stuff! I need to look into that. So all I need to do is take a pic a very low shutter speed? I don't know much about tech details and pictues
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Yes Marthy... with as little as a 2 second shutter you can do this, but most of the ones I've done have been something like 5-30 seconds. When people are involved, it's really hard to get them stand still for that long, but anything else is pretty easy. A tripod or setting the camera down is needed as well to prevent too much blur and you have to use manual focus, you may have to adjust it a couple of times to get it focused, but it's not too hard to do.

Definitely fun stuff. My kids love it.
 
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dart1963

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welll

no denying it now...



FTW!!!!!





















yes, wife tried to blind me tonight.... laser in the eye... tsill teeing dost (or was that the BH???? :)))) ) :justkidding:


Enjoy!
 

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