Light Painting

[bambleweeney]

This is the church in my village at Manses, southern France. This is a combination of about a dozen exposures obtained using a torch (flashlight) to illuminate or paint light on the church. This took an hour or so triggering the camera with a wireless remote while I walked round the church waving a torch at it.
All exposures were 30 seconds at about f5.6. The tree took about half a dozen exposures and the church a good deal more. I seemed to have moved the camera (walked into it in the dark) making the last 7 or eight shots out of register and so useless. Camera and torch batteries are on charge :-)

[Shadowman]

How much illumination do you think you would achieve by just 30 second exposure alone with no torch effects? Should that dimly lit image have been part of your group of exposures?

[Bobobird]

Excellent dedication to the "art".
I am not competent enough to judge this image and will leave that to the experts.

Do have a question - why does the church appear to be tilting backwards and the tree tilting to the side?
There appear to be some perspective issues that need fixing.

[bambleweeney]

Excellent dedication to the "art".
I am not competent enough to judge this image and will leave that to the experts.

Do have a question - why does the church appear to be tilting backwards and the tree tilting to the side?
There appear to be some perspective issues that need fixing.

The tree tilts to the side naturally and the church tilts backwards because I used a wide angle lens (10mm) which I should fix in Photoshop.

Shadowman - a 30 second exposure with no torch would have been black apart from the orange glow from behind the church especially at low ISO. I took a 30 second exposure at ISO3200 for the stars which did show the church lit up by those sodiums that were reflected from somewhere. It wasn't pretty - but the stars and milky way did come out.

[Shadowman]

The tree tilts to the side naturally and the church tilts backwards because I used a wide angle lens (10mm) which I should fix in Photoshop.

Shadowman - a 30 second exposure with no torch would have been black apart from the orange glow from behind the church especially at low ISO. I took a 30 second exposure at ISO3200 for the stars which did show the church lit up by those sodiums that were reflected from somewhere. It wasn't pretty - but the stars and milky way did come out.

Paul,

Thanks for the response. So the source of all of the illuminated portion of the church walls was created by torch alone, a mighty feat.

[bambleweeney]

This one is from the ISO3200 exposure for the stars blended with 4 or 5 shots of the church light painted. Torch batteries were starting to fade by this time - as was I

[Bobobird]

Yes 10mm would do that. Do quite like the 2nd.

[Mark von Kanel]

Excellent work i have asimilsr project i want to try when i get home, look forward to picking your brains, why havnt you combined the stars in the first image?