The Fourth of July was always a great holiday around my house. It was one of my favorites because we were able to play with sparklers. Each year my Mom would take a picture of us girls swirling the sparklers around and she would create beautiful and interesting pictures. I now know that she was painting. Not in the traditional way that we are all familiar with, but with light.
Light painting is such an easy technique and can be done with only a few materials. All you need to create this is a camera with a slow shutter, sources of light weather they be flashlights or glow sticks, and a dark environment. You take your light source and move it around while someone is taking a picture and the end result is breathtaking.
When I was doing this project I found that the flashlight was too bright because we were in a small room. One of our flashlights had a red light on the tail end of it and so that is what I used. This light was dim enough that it didn't light up the entire room but I was still able to create a gorgeous light painting that told the story of love and how it can start out small and blossom into something large.
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