Light Painting Portrait

[Kabell]

Hello everyone!

A few days ago I read about light painting and wanted to give it a try. So I shot a couple of self-portraits and tried to process them.

I used a small flashlight to "write" with and pointed it very briefly at myself so that I would be in the shot.

I'm very interested in getting some critique on this.
When I pointed the flashlight at my self it made my nose and mouth look weird - should I have done something else?
Do you have any ideas to how I could have processed the picture differently?
Any light painting tricks I should know of - if I dare playing with long exposures again?

Here's a link to the original if anyone want to give it a try:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2441496/P1141585.JPG



Camera: Olympus E-520
Exposure: 10
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Thank you in advance

Kabell