N-Photo: the Nikon magazine

Paint your garden

Light painting is a wonderful way to make the ordinary look extraordinary, and you don’t necessarily need to travel far to create photos that look out-of-this-world. In this project we’ll show you how to get set up to shoot eye-catching light-painted photos in your own garden after dark. You don’t need any special bits of kit for this, you probably have everything you need in your house. If it’s miserable weather or you don’t have a suitable garden, you could easily set this up indoors in a dark room with a pot plant or any other interesting-looking objects you like.

The technique for light painting is simple: we fix our camera to a tripod and set up a long exposure, then open the shutter and

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