Lightpainting Photography Part 1

I was on a photographing event which was hosted by my uncle who is a professional photographer. This is the first part where I can show you some long exposure shots when a hired model was playing with a fire. If you haven't seen the first story of this event then check the post I made yesterday Seacoast Photographing Event. When we were done whit the seacoast session we didn't exactly know where to go now because weather conditions were so harsh to play with fire and take long exposure shots at the beach. One guy there said he knows some catacombs nearby and this might be a good scenery to take photos of the model.

We went to see this catacomb if it is suitable for this session and fortunately it was. It was already getting dark also so it was a great time to start with our main subject why we went there this day. First place for a model to stand was behind 2 walls. I think there was 5 of us who all wanted to take a shot so it was not much room to set up 5 tripods and all equipment in one small place but we still managed to do so.

The model face is a little bit blurry because it is really hard to stand perfectly still for 5 seconds and playing with fire at the same time.

During these photos I wasn't behind my camera actually, I let one other guy press the button on my camera because I was holding a flash lamp over the model's head.

Pretty soon after we moved to a place with a different background and more room. This time I got to operate my camera myself. There we could really see why this model is a professional fire dancer. She did some pretty nice moves with the fire.

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The logic behind these shots is pretty simple. Camera shutter was set on 5 seconds and the model does its thing in the dark. Then somewhere on the 4th-second flash lamp hits and records the face on a photo sharply.

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