How to Create Light Graffiti Photography

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Get a flashlight

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   Step 2: glow stick

   A bedroom with a kind of high bed or table would help as a tripod.
   
   Or a real tripod. , BULB mode allows for the shutter to stay open for as long as the trigger is pushed.
   
   A longer shutter speed means more time that light is allowed in through the lens. ,, A lower aperture means more amount of light entering into the lens.
   
   The higher the aperture, the less light. ,,, When the shutter goes off, check out your masterpiece! This can also be done with sparklers, lightening, or highway photography with blurred head and tail lights.
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   Step 3: or something that provides colored or non-colored light.

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   Step 4: Go into a totally dark room.

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   Step 5: Set your camera to Manual mode if it's a DSLR

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   Step 6: and make the shutter speed 30 seconds(looks like this on the screen for Canon: 30")

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   Step 7: or have a friend help and set it to BULB mode.

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   Step 8: Set your ISO to one hundred or two hundred

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   Step 9: depending on the brightness of the room you are in.

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    Step 10: Set your Aperture (or f/stop) to 5.6.

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    Step 11: Put it on a two second timer so you have time to get in front of the lens

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    Step 12: or have a friend press the shutter button or do the pattern..

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    Step 13: Face the flashlight at the lens

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    Step 14: and start writing

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    Step 15: drawing

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    Step 16: or doodling your design.

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    Step 17: When the shutter opens

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    Step 18: you have thirty seconds (or however long your friend decides

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    Step 19: if using BULB mode) to write.

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