{"id":362,"date":"2010-03-10T15:44:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T22:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.russbishop.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2015-11-05T19:08:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T03:08:56","slug":"light-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/light-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/russbishop.photoshelter.com\/img-show\/I0000p1bhdNu5HbA\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"936612da.tif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000p1bhdNu5HbA\/s\/400\/602\/936612da.jpg\" alt=\"Ancient Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) under starry sky in the Patriarch Grove, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, White Mountains, California (Russ Bishop\/Russ Bishop Photography)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Light painting is a photographic technique where artificial light is combined with ambient light (typically at dusk or after dark) to enhance the features of\u00a0a foreground subject and add a sense of mystery. It is often used on Indian ruins, unique rock formations, or\u00a0trees to enhance the dramatic qualities already present in the scene.<\/p>\n<p>This image of an ancient Bristlecone Pine in the Patriarch Grove in California&#8217;s White Mountains was made at dusk when the stars were just starting to shine and the sky still held some color. A Maglite flashlight with\u00a0a directional snout and an amber gel was used to paint the tree during the 2 minute exposure, and a wide-angle 17mm lens allowed me to fill the frame with the large tree and still include plenty of sky.<\/p>\n<p>These images are fun to create because, as Forrest Gump would say, &#8220;you never really know what you&#8217;re gonna get&#8221;.\u00a0Fortunately with the advent of digital\u00a0the wait is considerably shorter than the old days of film and\u00a0any mistakes\u00a0can be corrected before leaving the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Russ Bishop\/All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light painting is a photographic technique where artificial light is combined with ambient light (typically at dusk or after dark) to enhance the features of\u00a0a foreground subject and add a sense of mystery. It is often used on Indian ruins, unique rock formations, or\u00a0trees to enhance the dramatic qualities already present in the scene. This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/light-painting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Light Painting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,8,12],"tags":[88,15,55,89,72,138,140,161],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-photography","category-nature-photography","category-techniques","tag-bristlecone-pine","tag-california","tag-forest","tag-light-painting","tag-mountains","tag-night","tag-stars","tag-white-mountains"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}