Sunday, August 23, 2009

Fun with Camera

We decided to try out some fun stuff with our camera. We did some light painting and took pictures of us posing with ourselves. :-)

You can enjoy our silliness below...








5 comments:

Jennifer said...

That's really neat! What is light painting?
Miss you guys! Jen

Alan Palmer said...

Light painting is painting with light (like the circular definition?).

You turn all the lights off in a room and set your camera to a very long shutter time (around 10-30 seconds). Then you face the camera with a flashlight and "paint" with the light from the flashlight.

We used a small LED flashlight and then used tissue paper to color the light different colors.

You can either write words or make pictures or you can use the flashlight to just light up the part of the scene you want (like we did with Raggedy Anne). Normally you have to write your words backward so the camera picks it up the right way but we just mirrored it on the computer afterward.

Bob and Glenda said...

This looks like fun!

Nikki Hootman said...

Thanks for explaining how you did it! I've been wondering how you got the colors. :)

Linda said...

Very clever. If you would like to see the latest picture of Nikki's belly, send me your e-mail address and I'll pass it along. We saw them in SLO this weekend.
Linda
Nikki's mom