Falcon Photo

This assignment was one of the funnest and coolest things I’ve ever done in my life. I was amazed the moment I realized drawing with light was possible with my trusty camera. To take pictures of light graffiti, you’ll need to setup some settings on your camera first. To start off, you’ll need to put the settings of your camera on manual. Then, set your ISO to its lowest value, which in my case is 100. This will make it very sensitive to any light, so make sure your atmosphere is as dark as possible. Next, set up how long you want your camera to be exposed for before taking a picture by choosing the quantity of seconds. After that, draw your way with flashlights, your phone, glow sticks, and more! I got control of the settings very quickly, but there were things that were not so easy. It was difficult to understand for me and my group to know when to start drawing (at the end we concluded that we needed to wait for 2 seconds after we press the camera button to start drawing). Also, since we didn’t know how the light would show itself at the end, most of our photos turned out to be sloppy and sometimes blurry. The next time I try something like this, I’ll probably go outside at night and set up the camera’s shudder speed for as long as possible to create an epic photo with more than one light!                                                                                                                                     -Marie Valouiski

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We took our pictures by having the shutter open for as long as possible. We turned on the flashlights while the shutter was open and started painting with the light. Having many attempts for one photo really worked because you could choose your best photo. Moving around while painting didn’t work because it made the picture blurry. It was really frustrating to figure out how you could paint your desired picture without messing it up. For taking this project to the next level, we could do a short stop motion video using light graffiti.

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The settings we used to take the pictures were ISO 100, F stop 5.6, and 15 second long shutter speed (maximum). The steps we took were to have someone supervise the creation of the photos while the other two would draw the scene with their lights. This worked sometimes, but there was a fourth group member that was not very helpful during the process, ruining the pictures and kicking everyone else to mess up the pictures. Also, the shutter only stayed open for 15 seconds, so our pictures were rushed. My idea for taking this to the next level would be to draw picture for minutes at a time, adding a ton of detail. 

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We took our pictures by putting the camera to manual, used F-Stops ISO setting.  We had to put the shutter speed to 10 seconds and during those 10 seconds we used our light to make a design.  What worked was using a flashlight.  What didn’t work was using the light from your phone.  What frustrated me during the project was getting everybody to do their design on time and finding backgrounds to do.   To look at the rest of my photos click here.