Light Painting

The other day I decided to have a quick go at light painting using my DSLR in my uni room. It basically involves creating an effect where it looks as though light has been drawn or painted across the image by using a relatively long exposure. It's really easy to do and is a lot of fun if you've got nothing better to do! 

Instead of moving the lights that were being photographed, I moved the camera around instead. This was because the lights I was taking the photos of were all on the various electronic things in my room (e.g. standby lights on my laptop and speakers). I turned the lights off in my room and used around a 3 second shutter speed. A few of the results are below. They aren't anything special but I was quite pleased with the kind of effect I was getting.

So there you have it. Just wanted something short to post today so I thought this fitted in quite nicely. As you may just have noticed, there isn't much of a wildlife theme to today's post, but then it's nice to have a bit of variety once in a while too! And, you'll be pleased to know I remembered to switch off all the electrical things overnight too to save a bit of power :D 

Thanks for reading and have a great week.