Thur, Fri, and Sat I was camping in Yosemite. We had a good time, looked at the flora and fauna, went on a few decent hikes (approx 10mi). The most fun was had, though, at the campground playing with the shutter on my camera. I was taking pictures of the fire, then got the idea to try to draw pictures using the burning sticks. We played with that for a while, then switched to flashlights, as they could be turned on and off to get "clean" pictures without any lines. We also had a red light we used to good effect. The pictures are below. None are photoshopped; these are straight out of the camera.

I took over 400 pictures, I only uploaded a few of the best.
http://picasaweb.google.com/svaladez/20090806#

We were able to "draw" by setting the shutter speed super slow (4 seconds, 10 seconds, sometimes 15 or 30) then waving our lights around while the shutter was open. After we would draw with the lights, one of us would run behind the camera and turn on the flood light to illuminate the subject. This is how we achieved the picture drawing with a person as the subject. It was hard drawing in the air without being able to see what had been drawn, but it was fun and I think we did OK.

Pictures with multiple subjects required on of us to set the camera on a timer, take the picture, run to the subjects, draw, then run back and turn on the light before the shutter closed. It was a challenge! It only applied after dark, though; the pictures taken during dusk had enough ambient light to capture the subject without the floodlight.

You don't even know how creeped out I am to see my name spelled out like that. Immensely. It isn't a common name. But those are pretty awesome.

Haha, Tim loves cock.

Oh, by the way, I've done this before, too, though not with as much creativity. One thing you have to do is to manually focus the camera with a light on your subject, then proceed like you did, since the camera can't focus itself in the dark. Then you'd get perfectly clear subjects as well as nice crisp penises or whatever you are drawing.

your shwartz are starting to twist together

http://www.outworldimages.com/

Related website. A friend from high school does a lot of photography with long, single exposures. Check it out.

If your camera has a bulb setting you can hold the shutter open as long as you like. Some cameras are set so that you press once for open and again for closed but some are set that you have yo hold the shutter down, which sucks. Painting with light is fun tho.

Bulb setting FTW. I want to get a remote trigger so i can do longer exposures with it. Saw this yesterday too: