Yesterday, I spent the morning with another photographer working low light portraits and light painting. This was a fairly new concept to me. I have seen photographs where this was done but in all the years I’ve been involved in photography I had not tried this technique.
I bought an LED light wand recently to try these things. Fortunately for me, the other photographer had worked with some of these things before.
I found it to be a very unique experience but one that typically requires some assistance.
The exposures were all 2 to 5 seconds with a rear curtain flash at the end which was set to manual and powered down. We were generally at 1/16th power on a speed light. While I’m not 100% satisfied with some of the results I did gain some experience about how to proceed in the future.
As I have written before, push your boundaries, and learn new techniques and creative ideas.
Photographer Clay 
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