samantha galati : Shutter Speed Experiment- Light Painting

For this week's experiment, I tried all the styles, but my strongest style was light painting.I found that you can make part of your face visible, so you look like a ghost! Well.. in this picture it looks like a floating decapitated head, but it's the thought that counts, right? This week's assignment was slightly difficult for me because a lot of the shots required patiences, something that I lack. Fortunately I was able to capture some shots at the park and some light painting ones at home. After numerous shots and failed attempts at trying to draw shapes and writing my name, I discovered that if I put the light source under my face and move my head from one side to the other side of the room, it makes me look like a ghost. I decided to use this picture because I thought it was the most interesting out of all the ones I took. For this shot, I used my phone as a light source, and put my aperture at f16. I set my IOS low so that it captures the bright colours better, and my shutter speed to 15 seconds. Thinking about it now, I could have switched my shutter speed to a slower speed for words and a shorter time for shapes and initials.

Here are some more pictures that came out well from my light painting photoshoot. I also tired to make a pumpkin with orange and green light in the same picture, but it took too long to switch the colours, and my face ended up showing a lot in the pictures and I really didnt want that.