Last week I went to the studio to experiment with light painting and using a bulb shutter as some of it is quite new to me and it was good to get used to light painting. Lots of my photos didn’t turn out too well but I started getting the hang of it the more photos I took.

My best four photos from the shoot and their edits

For this photo I liked the idea of having the room one colour and the corridor another colour. First I had to level the photo as it looks bad if it is not level, than I cloned the layer and removed the door so, I was only editing the first room, and increased the contrast, brightness and saturation because the blue was too dark. Now it looks better than it did but I feel like there is still room for improvements.

I really loved the colours and the lighting in the photo above, however there were marks caused the by the light, and the camera was not level, because it can be hard to tell in the dark, I managed to fix this in photoshop by rotating the photo and using the Clone stamp tool and the spot healing brush tool to get rid of the marks. Now the photo looks so much better.

For this photo I wanted to experimenting with writing with light, I did this using a violet laser pointer as it creates a cool light effect and goes well with the red. I wanted to write ‘forever learning’ because its on a whiteboard which teachers teach on and it goes well with the themes I want to explore in the personal study. I started editing the photo by making it brighter and more colourful by editing the: brightness, contrast, exposure and blacks/shadows as well as increasing the Vibrancy of the colours to make them stronger. I also moved some of the letters closer together with the selection tool and the move tool

I really like the way the light painting turned out in this photo and I felt it didn’t need too much editing done to it, so I mainly just increased the vibrancy to make the colours look stronger.

Overview

Overall I felt like going to the lighting studio to experiment with light painting was successful and I feel like I greatly improved by being in the studio for a few hours as before I knew how to light paint words but not colours and now I am more confident in both. I also felt like it was a safe space to practice and learn compared to being at a location and trying to figure it out.