Ever seen a car bathed in stark, dramatic light with no obvious source lit up under a dark sky? This is light painting, and it’s a fairly common style of night photography, especially for cars—but the ...

[This article is an excerpt from the book, ” Photojojo!: Insanely Great Photo Projects and DIY Ideas“ (2009), reprinted with permission from Potter Craft.] Normally, when you take a photo, the shutter ...

Light painting is the process of moving a light while taking a long-exposure photograph, which creates a sort of drawing from the path of the light source. It’s been done in one way or another since ...