Magical Light Powers

One night, a fairy light princess came through my window and gave me magical light powers. The next morning I woke up and I discovered I could emit light through my hand. 

Just kidding... this technique is what's called light graffiti or light writing. This happens when you over expose your camera over a period of time. To do this, all you need is a room, flashlight, a camera, and a camera stand. 

First find a room, and it can be well lit or dark, your choice. Then, set up your camera on the stand, set a timer, and stand in front of the camera with your flashlight. It's important to have your camera in the right mode... keep it in manual settings with a very low shutter speed (15-30 seconds). Play around with the shutter speed until you like your results. 

I had two flashlights in my hands, hence the two colors in the HI picture. It's a little difficult to draw letters in the air because you have to draw backwards, and you have to make sure you're not overlapping the letters. 

 Huh, are you confused? Are these real fireworks? You wonder, and I'll answer. My sister and I created these fireworks with two flashlights. I created the blue sparks while she created the center yellow dot, which happens to look a lot like a sun. 

These are outlines of my sister posing. She just stood in a pose, and I traced her out with the flashlight. I got around to naming her poses...

                  Name: Kate (looks like she's skating)       Name: Victor (victory pose)

    

Name: Bulk (she tried to look like the Hulk)

Here's a nice scene created by my sister and I. She took care of the "dreamy" work by creating the sun and clouds, while I did the "down-to-earth" work by creating the grass, trees, and birds. We did all this in a 30-second shutter speed. 

 Once again, our macho girl in the dark.There's my sister wishing she could be superwoman, and I drew the yellow lines behind her so that she can be visible.

And our last post for these light graffiti's. Bye!

Hope you enjoyed these easy and simple works of light. The next time I do light graffiti, I'll make sure to include visible objects instead of a black background.

 

Fib Master

I think I can sell this piece of artwork for a few hundred right? It's a 9x15 canvas, and phew it took a ton of time to paint. I used a technique I call, dry-brush, where you paint a portion and then smudge it out on the canvas. This was inspired by a picture I took at longwood gardens sometime ago. Let me know if you would like to purchase it!

Imagine you're on vacation and it's Fourth of July. You visited a huge cave attraction for the whole day. Your tour guide taught you so much about them, you were totally fascinated by the end of the day. As night was nearing and the caves were closing, you realized you left a bag way inside. You went to go get it, but when you came back, the exit was closed up. Oh no..you were locked inside... what were you going to do for the night?? All these thoughts were running through your mind until the fireworks interrupted you right above. Perfect spot right?

I found these delicious red berries on the dryest leaves ever. These dainty berries were as bright as a red rose in a pile of snow. It just stood out in the gray bush, I've never seen anything like it. 

P.s. I'm just kidding!! All of these pictures are edited on various editing software. The first picture was just edited with an artistic filter. The second picture was a combination of two pictures layered. And the third picture is a black/white picture and I just left the red berries in color. Haha, sorry if I fooled you, but this is the power of editing. 

Christmas Bracelets

Arts and crafts for you all! I've never posted a craft-piece I've made so far on this blog, so for the first time, here are a few Christmas bracelets I made this year. 

In all honesty, I had no idea how and where to put these bracelets. I just thought they should lay on something brown to contrast the color, but not on something flat. I looked around for a browny color, and the fur on the hood of my mom's coat did the job. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 bracelets hits the furry hood.

I love this picture a lot, it looks so dramatic and has a studio look. That's right, I took a photoshoot of these bracelets, not weird at all! I found a fancy book to pile the bracelets on, and started snapping! So these bracelets are I guess what you call "friendship bracelets". I used about five different colors of embroidery string, created mini strings, and braided them up. I think the mini strands gave the bracelet a lot of volume and colorfulness. These bracelets are very easy to make, yet I don't know why it was so difficult to find a setting for them. Think about where you would photoshoot them...?