Light Painting Under The Night Sky

Benjam · February 6, 2020

Here’s my first attempt at light painting while travelling, In fact it was my first time ever using a DSLR camera. I had all ready carried the camera and tripod around in the bottom of my rucksack for 6 months without any use. Fiji’s made up of over three hundred islands. I was just under five hours away by boat from the main island so the night sky was amazingly dark. I got talking to a fellow traveller the day before on a day trip who gave me a quick tutorial on the basic functions and settings I would need.

The equipment i used: Canon 1300D, Manfrotto Travel Tripod, Remote Switch and a Head Torch. Oh and it helps if you have a assistant too like Debbie McGee...

I had my Debbie McGee lookalike hold the torch. The trick is to turn the torch on writing a letter backwards into thin air, turn off the torch and for you’re assistant to move a few steps to there left and repeat the process till you’ve spelt out what ever you wish, all under 30 seconds. It’s great fun for all ages and you can be as imaginative as you like. You don’t even have to write, you can just stand still and draw shapes.

The pictures I took are still in a RAW format so I haven’t processed anything. I’m hopeful some processing will bring out more detail in the night sky.