Delaware Art Museum Class # 6: Shooting Manually, Equivalent Exposure, Light Painting

This was a GREAT class!  At least for me, our teacher answered some of my nagging questions and gave us something really fun to work on. 

I'll start with the fun thing. Light Painting!

I think the whole class really enjoyed this exercise.  Our teacher set up a camera on a tripod.  We set it to manual at these settings: 10 second shutter speed, f22 and ISO 100.  We used a 2 second timer (which prevents the shake of my camera so you get a very still shot) and then turned out all the lights.  Then he took a flashlight and shined it only on the basket and the fruit.  As you'll see below, depending upon where you shine the light on the fruit you'll get different effects.  The above bowl of fruit was just sitting on a basic brown school type table.

We added the sheet of paper to demonstrate that your table is a different then of course it will not have the same black (sitting in space) appearance.

We all took turns trying different shots. The person who constructed the above shot, shined on the fruit from predominantly behind and then faced the flashlight at the camera.

 What's interesting about the above picture is that the flashlight created a square reflection on the table. Very fascinating.

The picture above is with the flashlight shining on only one side of the basket.

We called this picture "The Midnight Fruit Thief."   The hand is blurry, of course, because it's a 10 second shutter speed and she is moving.

This foggy picture isn't a very good picture, but it demonstrates something.  While this picture was being taken over the 10 seconds, I was moving my hand in front of the camera in a circle, but because of the long exposure my hand is not even perceived.  Just creates this foggy look. (This has nothing to do with the light painting, as the lights were on for this one, just thought it was interesting).

This is really fun to play around with!  Enjoy!