LIGHT-PAINT A LANDSCAPE

1 HOUR

We often think of cameras as tools for recording the world as we see it, but they’re also capable of capturing far more than the eye can perceive. Light painting is a case in point. To the eye, a dark night is just that, but if we stick the camera on a tripod, open the shutter for a couple of minutes and wave a torch around, then all of a sudden our camera starts to see things differently. To the camera’s sensor, light is cumulative, so when there’s minimal ambient light we’re able to build up our own light gradually, in exactly the places where we want it – a single torch beam can light an entire scene, and even an expansive landscape.

With torch in