The technique used in the painting with light starts with changing the ISO to a lower number, like 100 or 200. Then, set your exposure to a long one, and make sure your camera is still in order to get rid of blurriness. Also, the aperture must be set to a lower number, in order to capture the great depth of field. Painting with light is a photographic technique that uses a flashlight or other hand held light source to "paint" with in a low aperture photo. In order to create these photographs, one needs a flashlight or other hand held light source, a camera set on a long exposure, a tripod, and a dark setting.
During my experience with painting with light, I discovered many things that worked well, and some that did not work so well. In the first picture above, we were trying to spell out a name, but it was not working because the camera kept moving, which created the blurry effect. In the photo below that one, we discovered how to draw out certain characters. When we drew the cat picture, we had discovered the mode that enabled us to hold down the button until we were done so we could achieve the perfect shutter speed. One thing that could have made the experiment better is if it were darker in the room.
