Light Play

Here is something fun to do. Take your digital camera, turn off your flash, and find a low light situation. This might be outdoors at night or in a dark room. Look around for focused light sources. LEDs on electric appliances, holiday lights, car head lights (I recommend you do not stand in the road). You just need to avoid areas with flood lights. With your flash off your camera should attempt to lengthen the time of exposure. In the dark it needs more time to capture an image. While you take the picture, move your camera around or side to side. Below is the kind of picture you might get. These are car tail lights and a green traffic signal. Once you load your pictures into your computer you can use the color wheel or sliders to enhance the color. You might need to read your help menu in your photo edting software to figure this out if you have not done so already. Then try overlapping the light images with other photos for some wild results. Below is the same photo as above with the color changed, intensified and a face dropped in. I love this stuff! Have fun.


Jeff in the dark
Please Note: This photo was taken with a simple point and shoot Nikon. A more advanced
Digital SLR camera will alow you to take much longer exposures and achive even wilder effects.

Here is a link to more info on extending exposure time and all aspects of digital photography.
http://digital-photography-school.com/long-exposure-photography