Flashlight Photography Fun

This is a real hoot!  Get into a dark room.  Have your subject hold a flashlight.  Set you camera to manual focus, aperture around 5.6, shutter speed at somewhere between 5 and 15 seconds.  Since this is a very long shutter speed, you will need a tripod. Focus on your subject.   You may to to have them flash the flashlight at his/her face to help with the focus.  Press the button for a picture.  Now, it the 5/15 seconds that follow, draw something with the flashlight.  Hearts, flowers, frames, whatever!  When the picture is finally taken, you will see a light drawing that was made with the flashlight.  Kids love it!