Playing with lights

 The other day me and fellow photographer Kieran Jones (http://www.facebook.com/#!/ATCNORTHAMPTON) were pretty bored. we out and bought some flaming garden lights and started experimenting with long exposure shots in his garden! We started off by making a man appear to be sitting on a bench as you can see above. Below are some of our other results.

 Here is a shot of a man on a swing. To make these long exposure shots if you don't know already, you turn down your shutter speed so the shutter stays open over a period of time. I turned made the shutter open for 20 seconds on these examples. You then move light to wear the camera is pointing you can draw shapes such as this man.  The reason this happens is because all the time the shutter is open it is letting light in.

  To take long exposure shots you need to make shore there is very little light otherwise you'll just end up with just a very over exposed shot.

 This is one of my favorite shots I took in the shoot. With the subtle use of light circling around the stump and rose i find this makes the picture elegant.

Here I've used a more bolder light effect. Although this is the same shot the bold light changes the feel to the photo making it look more of a powerful shot than the other one.