Light painting Bmw Z8

[MacMorre]

Back in september I took a trip in Spain where a friend of mine has a BMW Z8. (you know, the one from the james bond movie..)

I've read here and there about light painting, and i thought i'd give it a try. Here are the results.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29834156@N07/5554414780/

So this was the first picture I took. I took the flashlight of my cell phone, and just gave some light to certain parts

Afterwards, we went down to a beautiful place at the harbor where I made these shots.

I set my camera into bulb, and just start running around the car flashing my flash (oh yeah), and accentuating some parts with my cell phone flash. When I was ready, I ran back to the camera and closed the shutter.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/29834156@N07/5554413366/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29834156@N07/5554414594/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29834156@N07/5554415746/

It needs improvement (you can often see my ghost shade in the picture + the red light of the flash) but it was really worth the try!

[jherman]

fun, I could see this approach in an ad. How long open?

[MacMorre]

Thank you!

The opening was between 20 and 30 seconds at f/4 :-)

[skiier3_9]

What did the camera meter at 20s and f/4? That seems almost overexposed - I assume you were using ISO 100?

[MacMorre]

Here is the Exif data. Hope that answers your question? :

Camera Nikon D40
Exposure 25
Aperture f/4.0
Focal Length 26 mm
ISO Speed 200
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash No Flash
Orientation Horizontal (normal)
X-Resolution 72 dpi
Y-Resolution 72 dpi
Software QuickTime 7.6.6
Date and Time (Modified) 2010:10:22 12:52:57
Host Computer Mac OS X 10.6.4
YCbCr Positioning Centered
Exposure Program Manual
Date and Time (Original) 2010:09:06 23:53:59
Date and Time (Digitized) 2010:09:06 23:53:06
Max Aperture Value 4.0
Metering Mode Multi-segment
Light Source Unknown
Sensing Method One-chip color area
Compression JPEG (old-style)