Can anybody help me find information on special effects using the camera, especially 'painting with light' please

-- rachael fenn (flossy1701@aol.com), September 23, 2001

Answers

Do a search at www.google.com on the phrase "painting with light".

Look up any books with photography by Maholy-Nagy. Sorry for the brevity, gotta go.

-- Jeff Polaski (polaski@acm.orgf), September 25, 2001.

Rachael, I have done something similar here in the desert. I will find a likely subject by day and go back at night, open the shutter to bulb and use a focused beam on my flashlight and start moving the beam in random patterns acroos the subject. I usually shoot all 12 exposures at varying times/patterns and then choose the best image when I look at the contact sheet. Worked really well on a nude on rock by the side of the river. I concentrated on the figure but put light on the canyon walls and my model moved a little during the exposures creating a almost ghostly effect. It is a lot of experimentation but I have had good results with this technique. I use a 3 D cell Maglight flashlight. Ranger Bob

-- Bob Smith (rangerbob1993@yahoo.com), September 25, 2001.

See if you can find a copy of View Camera magazine from about a year ago. It has a picture of an old chuch at night on the cover. The guy (don't have my magazine here) put a car batery on wheels, hooked up two car headlights, set up the camera (5x7 in this case) and left it open for like a couple of hours while he walked around lighting this wall and that tomb stone. Very differnt from the little fiber-optic or mag-light stuff you see. He also said that depending on the municipalities choice of street lighting, the sky would have a green or yellow, or blue cast. Verry interesting if you can find it. You could probably e-mail Steve Simon and ask him about a back issue. Dean

-- Dean Lastoria (dvlastor@sfu.ca), September 28, 2001.

The Negative, by Ansel Adams

-- Mike (watgo@aol.com), October 03, 2001.

I love you my baby Rachael

-- Robert Hoar (flossy1701@aol.com), December 04, 2001.