Light Painting an Orchid

Light Painting an Orchid.

For his lesson today, Nolan who I mentor in the independent studies program at Westlake High School, we light painted this orchid. We lit the plant with a small led flashlight and looked at each image on my ipad by using the Cam Ranger system plugged into the Canon 5d Mark 3 camera. We ended up with 10 different images of varying lighting on the orchid that we layered and masked together to create this final image. We back lit the flowers and front lit the flower buds. The back lighting helped pop out the dramatic edges of the flower petals.

Light Painting an Orchid by Nolan and Johnny

These are some of the light painted images that we blended together to make the final Orchid image.

Light Painting an Orchid