ALA Light Painting Extravaganza

Objective: The Design IT teen from Applied Learning Academy (ALA) working with light painting.

Time: December 2006

Activity: The ALA Design IT teens are the first to work with the light painting section to the Light Cycle. Light painting is drawing with a small source of light in front of a camera. The digital camera must have the ability to slow the shutter speed to about 15 seconds. When the shutter speed is slowed down, the camera is able to only capturing the light and movement in front of it. The room has to be completely dark or other objects or the painter is in the background.

The first part of the activity was to practice drawing different shapes, then following that, teens had to draw actual pictures of animals. In the picture to the left, Allie and Hannah, were practicing how to make a kangaroo. With Christmas around the corner, the last activity for light painting was to make Christmas decoration for the Holiday party as seen below with the mistletoe.