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And some have asked what is light painting and how I do it

Lightpainting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made mostly long exposures so you need your camera on a steady surface such as a tripod. and by moving a hand-held light source this can be to to illuminate a subject, create light patterns, or to shine a point of light directly at the camera, another way is by moving the camera itself during exposure, something i havent tried intentionally myself, I have sometimes moved my camera while taking a long exposure and got some funky effects.
and for many me included, although I do edit all my photos I do not add any effects while edited just fine tune what a managed to catch.

For my light sourse I have two RGB critter flashlights, that can be set to shine in a variety of colors or patterns of colors, and some attachments I connect to these.

Each time I go out I am trying to get better with the images i create and i would like to think I am doing better than when I started but then I see some amazing light painting effects created by others and it inspires me to keep practicing and hopefully improving

I took quite a few in that area, and then walked to another spot and found a big puddle by the fort which I was pleased to see as it would allow me to catch both light painting and reflections

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quite happy with how these ones came out by the puddle, wish I had got to this spot earlier and not taken so many at the other side of the fort, the light was picking up so I had limited time to get shots in this spot

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and a shot i got before discovering the puddle

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and yet another one

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And that’s all folks

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