Light Painting

I don't really know why I had never heard of this before. Apparently this form of art and photography has been around for a while. It's called Light Painting and it is way cool. I recently went out with a camera and a friend one evening and we took loads of pics. I'll post some soon. It was so much fun, it was easy to hoard the camera and we had to make sure to share :)
Light painting, or light drawing is a photographic technique where exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. The light can either be used to illuminate parts of the subject or to "paint" a picture by shining it directly into the camera lens. Light painting needs a relatively slow shutter speed, the darker, the slower. Like night photography, it has grown in popularity since the advent of digital cameras because they allow photographers to see the results of their work immediately. And you never know what the "art" will turn out like, until it shows up on the screen. Surprise! Here's a great light painting movie....Enjoy!