light-painting is something that most people can do, at literally no expense at all and receive outstanding results. here's what you need:

• A camera [ it's better if it has a timer delay or basically you can set it to shoot for a period of time, say 10 seconds for a single shot]
• A tripod or a stable place to place your camera
• a led light, or what i normally use is a maglite, google it, but with the bezel off. [essentially any pointed light source will work, like a match or flashlight, but it tends to be more blurry ]
• a very dark place. duhh

first thing is to find a suitable backdrop. any backdrop will do, and a tip i can give is that a reflective surface can sometimes give gorgeous results, as i'll show later :]

make sure it's dark so that the photo doesn't get too bright due to the long exposure.

Set-up your camera next to shoot for a long period of time, say 10 seconds.

Note that beforehand, try it out to make sure that without the led light source, the picture remains dark or doesn't brighten up too much, unless you have a very good backdrop

then, press the shutter button and start doing the text/design/whatever that you want to do.

Presto!

Tips:
- be creative and do the light trails as if it's in motion of shows a dynamic movement, like the ipod picture i posted below. radd~

- you can also draw around anything, to give it that glowing look.

- for DSLR users, and some p&s shooters, here's the simple rules:

• low ISO
• high aperture
• low shutter speed
• high creativity

here's a few that i made, and they're done with different backdrops to show how versatile this process is. wordd~








bh moone, pick your choice :D