Darkroom Light Painting

For the Distortion brief we went down into the darkroom to experiment with light painting and double exposures.

I created pictures by using torches as the sole light source in the room, using a 20 second exposure to 'paint' light into the image with them. As well as the lights in the background of the image, behind my subject, I had to have my subject lit with torches from the front also.

Using techniques in the darkroom like this can produce lots of different results. You can 'write' with the light like in this image:

You can also create double/triple/etc exposures by having your subject(s) move during the 20-second exposure:

Another effective technique using light-painting involves creating silhouettes by filling the space behind your subject with light.