Creativity #4

WEEK 4: CREATIVITY

Light Painting

For this week's creativity blog, I decided to delve into the world of light painting. While the outcomes were satisfactory, they indicated that I need to further hone my framing and movement skills. Nonetheless, I'm pleased with the results.

Process:

I mounted my camera on a tripod and manually focused on the area where I intended to execute the light painting.
I minimized all ambient lighting as much as possible.
I set my ISO to 100, the shutter speed to 6 seconds, and the aperture to f/9.
To avoid any camera shake from pressing the capture button, I set a 10-second timer.
With the shutter open, I began my light painting.

Here are the results:

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