From the course: Travel Photography: Seaside Road Trip
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Shooting portraits in a sea cave
From the course: Travel Photography: Seaside Road Trip
Shooting portraits in a sea cave
So the light was finally dark enough for me to, to go into the cave and do what I wanted to do all along, which was this light painting technique. And light painting is literally that. You're painting the subject matter with some light source. I use some simple flashlights that I bought at Costco. some people use strobes for light painting. you can certainly light paint with a strobe. it's a little bit harder because you don't, you can't see as well what you're doing. because the flash is, is so quick. But with the flashlight, you can actually you know, literally see what you're doing, and paint. I have three flashlights to work with. Which is plenty of light and you (SOUND) want to make sure you're shooting with a slow enough shutter speed so that you can paint it a little bit while the shutter is open. So I had to have them hold very still, which they did and I didn't boost my ISL at all. (SOUND) So I kept the ISL low so it was very easy to get a slow shutter speed and get the shot…
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