Light panting is when somebody takes a picture and uses a light, such as a torch, to create shapes and images on to the picture. This is done by leaving the shutter open for longer- slowing down the shutter speed and ‘painting’ in front of the lens. This technique is used by a lot of people as a form of photography. It was hard to start taking these photographs because I didn't know what the settings had to be on and I didn’t understand them properly. This was frustrating because I was trying to take photographs but they were coming out wrong. After I learned about the settings in the exposure table such as the ISO, Apeture, and shutter speed I took pictures which had a good result. I took most of my picture through daylight and done different effects with the images in the picture. I slowed down the shutter speed to roughly 4" and either zoomed into the subject, or mover the subject.
It was hard to find time to take the pictures though because the whole class only had a few lessons to take the pictures using the college cameras and the darkroom and I didn’t own a camera. I enjoyed doing this because it was creative and I got to experiment with the settings and learn about them and how they work.
These are some of the photos I took on manual setting, changing the shutter speed and ISO. Shutter speed so that the picture takes for longer which means you can add a sence of motion and movement to the picture. And ISO so that not to much light is let in, in the 4 seconds so the picture isnt to bright.
