9th December 2025
With the wet and windy weather abating, Tuesday evening turned out to be an ideal night for playing with some light painting techniques as a group, both indoors and outdoors.
We started the evening in the hall. Guided by Chris, everyone setup cameras the same way and pointed at the same subject to take the same photo. This ensured everyone was at least initially setup in the kind of way that would allow light painting to be captured. Notably that meant long exposure times (at least 5 seconds), manual or bulb mode, reasonably low ISO, an aperture to capture some depth (f9), tripod mounted and once initially focussed, lenses in manual focus.
With everyone setup and capturing the expected light painting, small groups formed to experiment with the many varieties of light sources that had been brought along. Light painting is definitely easier as a group exercise and the space and darkness outside is very useful! Straight away there was some great creativity happening and plenty of fun being had as a result. The joy of light painting is you can never be 100% sure what you’ve captured until the shutter closes. Equally, if it doesn’t work at the first go, you try again. Exposures in particular can be tricky as the camera can’t do the calculations for you so it really is a genre ripe for experimentation.
We broke for refreshments around 9.15pm but a testament to the mild weather was seeing members keen to get back outside and try some more. A special thanks to Brian who was rarely seen without a light source in hand being animated in some way!
Thanks to all that came along and well done for getting properly involved and working together.
Here’s a selection of photos captured by members on the evening.
Blog written by Chris Andrews
See you all next week for our Christmas party night.
Lovely photos from this evening and a super blog explaing details.
Well done Rachel on your Wildlife Selection.
A good blog Chris, and some interesting images. It looks as though you all enjoyed the evening.