Rainbow Painted Pony (Get Pushed Round 5)

This was my third week in the flickr group Get Pushed. The purpose of the group is to take a challenge from a partner assigned to you each week. For this challenge I was paired with Rogey1. He has a wonderful and varied stream that you should really view. He is a very versatile and clever photographer! You'll be impressed.

Well, after perusing my stream, he stated, "Wow, you have an amazing and such a varied photostream. Awesome!

I don’t think I have seen any shots that would really fall into the category of ‘painting with light’. I have done just a few ‘painting with light’ shots and my first thought is that it revolves around an object , a torch and mounting the camera on a tripod. But, there clearly can be much more to it than this!

He then gave me some helpful links to help illustrate the principles of 'painting with light' and then left me with the following challenge:

So, my challenge is for you to produce a ‘painting with light’ shot. I’ll leave the interpretation entirely up to you.

Is this ok, please?

This was a great challenge and I had a lot of fun doing it although I put it off until the end of the challenge period to take any photos. With all of the research in the subject, I found there are numerous interpretations of what exactly painting with light is, so I tried a few different techniques. Because of my mother's 90th birthday celebration, my brother the architect from Oregon was up, and we usually have a good time trying to problem solve and experiment with my flickr group assignments. So with the help of my brother, Jim, and my sister, Laurie I came up with the following images. We had a lot of fun in the experiments. Thank you Rogey1 for pushing me into new frontiers with my camera.

About the photo. This is a glass sculptured horse statuette. I used a very slow shutter speed with my camera mounted on a tripod. Then my sister swung a chain of children's glow lights behind the subject thus giving the striped appearance in the background.

Thank you for your visits and comments! This was a most difficult challenge, but I had a lot of fun and learned a lot. I'm doubling this one up and using it in my cliche Saturday as "light painting." So HCS!

Taken in: United States / Idaho / Colburn (show map)

Taken on: August 12, 2011

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