A Shot In The Dark – 12 Light Painted Images

I head out in the dark, sometimes underground but often at night and use a camera, tripod and portable lighting to create stylised shots of places and monuments that look totally different to how they look in the day. Often transforming them from the mundane and everyday into exciting and dramatic creations, and the technique is called light painting. One of the reasons I love using lights this way is that you have total control over how the final image comes out. You can choose the angle of the light, how long that part of the subject is lit for, you can add coloured filters over your lights to add colour to the scene, you can use special effects like adding a sparkler or candles, you can choose to leave certain parts dark. At the end of the exposure, if you don’t like the image that appears on the back of your digital camera then you can just do it again, making the improvements needed to create your final shot. In short it is like working with a blank canvas and feels more like traditional art than photography, plus it’s a lot of fun!

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Avebury and comet Neowise

Subterranean Air Raid Shelter

Abandoned Jet Engine Testing Tunnel

Abandoned tower and Comet Neowise

Nuba Survival statue in Oxfordshire.

Church Doorway in Stow on the Wold

Cave Chamber, Wales

Wilders Folly, Berkshire

Abandoned Chalk Mine, Reading

Anechoic Chamber, Hampshire

Holy Well, Caversham

Culvert, Reading

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