Light graffiti, also known as light painting, is a photography technique that moves a hand-held light source or camera in the night or dark room to produce light mapping effect. With the promotion of art lovers and photographers, this kind of art has gradually become a popular street and fashionable art activity since 2009. Many people envy that SLR cameras can play beautiful light graffiti, right? Don't envy, this article is to teach you how to use your mobile phone to do your own light graffiti.
First of all, we need a mobile phone with a camera shutter speed that is relatively slow. If the shutter speed can be 1/2 second or more, then how do you know the slowest shutter speed of your mobile phone? Very simple. We use the camera's normal photography mode, and set the ISO value to the lowest. Then put the phone on the desktop, remember that the camera is facing the desktop, and then press the capture key. After taking the picture, check the EXIF information of the picture, where the exposure time is the slowest shutter speed that your phone can take. For example, the slowest shutter speed of Xiaobian's mobile phone is 1/2 second.
OK, let's get to the point. We need several things: a darkroom, your mobile phone, a small flashlight or another smart phone with flash. If your mobile phone does not support timed shooting, you can find some third-party camera software with timed shooting and ISO control functions or directly find someone to help you shoot.
Next, we set the ISO of the camera to the minimum, set the scene mode to automatic and set the timing shutter (10 seconds is recommended), finally fix your mobile phone, press the timing shutter, run to the appropriate location, use your flashlight or use your mobile flash as a flashlight, and write and doodle in the air! However, it is worth noting that the shutter speed of the camera must be slow enough! Otherwise, you can't just doodle. For example, when the shutter speed is 1/2 second, you have 0.5 second to do light graffiti. After 0.5 second, the camera can no longer capture your next light graffiti track.
Next, put some small pieces of light graffiti. PS: Please ignore the messy room environment.
Yes, do you see anything? OK, let's put the pictures together!
Valentine's Day is coming, and this can be said to be a gift from Xiao Bian for your Valentine's Day: isn't it romantic to express your love to your goddess by using the light graffiti you shot yourself? Loser can't afford to buy an SLR. He dares to show his love to you with his mobile phone!
Of course, if you are willing, you can also write some other words. For example, the "machine" character in the first picture above is a small series of light graffiti strokes, and then use PS to put them together. Xiao Bian won't say that his arms are almost useless for making these light graffiti. If you have any questions or suggestions about the article, please leave your comments below, and the editor will reply one by one.
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