Project 52 Week 13 “Playing with Light”

Now, to a photographer, “Playing with light” could simply be interpreted as, “Take a Picture”, since the word photography literally means, “painting with light”. SO technically, every time a photographer happily goes out to make an image they are ‘playing with light’.

However, my interpretation of this week’s theme was to incorporate a lighted object of some kind into an image. I thought of flashlights, LED lights, Christmas tree lights, candles…..but finally went under the house and brought up our set of Bocce balls that have little lights in them. Then I sat in my bathroom with the colorfully lit balls on a black blanket, turned the light off, set the camera on ISO 100, a 4 second exposure at F16, and took about a hundred shots of them at various angles, moving the camera and/or zooming in and out at the same time…until I finally found one I liked…

Next week’s theme is, “Night”