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Fire Roses

March 10, 2005

This picture was taken using a technique called "Painting with Light". It is a very interesting technique with a bit of trial and error because I was shooting in the dark for almost a minute.

With the light off, a small Mag light and the camera set to manual shutter on a tripod, I shine the flash light at the subject in different angles and duration to give it the exposure. Thus one will have to estimate how long to shine the light at one particular spot before moving to another. Hence, there are lots of trials (overexpose/underexpose) to get to this final shot.

The end result is a dramactic lighting on the subject where a burst of flash light would not have given the effect you're seeing in the final picture.

Hopy you like it.

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