Monday, February 15, 2010

Light Painting - 2/13/2010

Jalna sent out an invite to meet at the Pu'u O Mini Park in Kaimuki after dark for some light painting shooting. I was fortunate to meet up w/ other photogs CD, Erick, Susie, Stan and Les, who joined Marvin and Jon in doing most of the great light painting..or actually, I prefer to call these works of art, "Light Graffiti". I was laughing so much, I'm surprised I even got these shots to work..
Before I left, I had to make sure I get a shot of the breathtaking night scenery of Waikiki and downtown. This was a stitched panoramic of two shots.
This was my first time shooting light painting but it was really simple..using the same setting as taking fireworks..Bulb, F11, ISO 100. I had a 'panic' moment when I forgot how to set my camera to BULB. After I finally tried Manual mode and was then able to scroll to BULB in the shutter speed setting, all was well. It's cool how the different color flashlights show up in the shots. Here are graffiti zoo animals.. It's amazing..you can't see what they're drawing until the shutter is closed and I look at my LCD.
This is 'rear curtain' flash where the flash is applied after the light painting is done. Erick was able to set off his flash so we could capture this shot.

1 comment:

jalna said...

I love your panorama. I think I'll call you the panorama Queen. Now I gotta go back there and try it for myself. Your photo with the building reflecting the sunlight is amaaaaaazing. I love the lighting. Did you notice the policeman has two shadows? One from the sun and one from the reflection. Soooo neat!!