Strategically Adding Light

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Strategically Adding Light

Finding Your Angle

Light Painting Techniques

Night Sky Photography light painting

Prepping Your Image to Combine Exposures

Light painting is a way to illuminate parts of your image that would otherwise be dark, and it can be both fun and challenging.

The first thing to know is that light loses intensity over distance, which means things further away require more light. Getting more light to a subject usually means painting those parts with a brighter light or for more time. But sometimes there’s not enough time in a single exposure to illuminate everything in one shot. Other times you may find that the painting in several image...

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