This evening we used CS5 to make a contact sheet to display our silhouettes we shoot over the past 2 weeks.

No college last week half term already. I went to Pennard Castle down the Gower about 9pm with my camera and 1 million candle watt spot light. I wanted to try and do some light painting on the castle. Using a tripod for stabilisation, camera in manual mode, shutter 30- 60+ secs F-stop 8 ISO 100 WB auto and cable release if need for bulb. Once I opened the shutter I splashed the light over the castle and highlighted the grass in front of the camera. I found that it was difficult to focus because my camera has a electronic view finder, which is harder to see through in low light conditions. Once i got the shutter speed right about 1 min and under I had some good shots of the castle. I will be trying this again when I have made some coloured gels for the torch to highlight in different colours instead of just the one. 

We carried on from last week finishing off the remaining silhouette photos in the studio.