Light Painting - Year 9/10 Photography Elective

Over the last couple of weeks, the students in the Year 9/10 Photography Elective have been learning about Light Painting and honing their skills in this style of photography. With this genre of photography, longer shutter speeds are required due to the lack of light. This requires any people used in the image to stay perfectly still while the shutter is open. We have used glow sticks in a dark room and on a previous Saturday evening we used sparklers on a spinning bike tyre and burning steel wool in a stainless-steel kitchen whisk and spinning it to make spiral light tunnels. The photos below give a flavour of what the students have created.