How to make Amazing Light paint Photographs

Light painting is one of the most interesting things to learn. As its end product is extremely beautiful you can really enjoy this tutorial.Make sure you have a good Poit Shoot camera or a DSLR.

Generic Common Settings for Light Paintings

Although each setting on your camera will be dependent on the lighting situations, here is a generic combination of settings that you can use as a rule of thumb if you are confused:
Put your camera on a tripod and use Manual Mode and manual focus, lower the ISO number as low as it can go.

Aperture and Exposure

Have your aperture at F5.6 and your shutter speed at 5 seconds. If you want to make the photo brighter, change the aperture to a smaller number (like 2.8). Adjust your shutter speed as necessary.
That is the bare-bones-basic-generic-rule-of-thumb setting for long exposure work. Drawing with light is – for the most part – really easy and fun, even though it can be challenging to get things just right. For your first try, simply wait until it is night time, put your camera on a tripod, and put your camera on manual mode with the settings above applied. Then take anything that illuminates or glows (like a cellphone or glow stick, for example) and wave it around about 5 feet from the camera while it is taking an exposure.

Oh but wait! There is a helpful tip about focusing that I should mention before we move on. In order to help set your focus point in the dark, simply place an LED or flashlight facing the camera on the spot where you want to focus. Focus on the light until it becomes sharp, then switch to manual focus so the camera won't try to keep autofocusing, and you're set to go.