Paint with Light

This is a technique called painting with light where you leave the shutter open (bulb mode) on you camera and just use a light to set where you want to expose, the light in this example was just a little pen light but you can do the same sort of thing in fields at night with torches to illuminate say, rocks or trees. In this picture of my epiphone and amp I just opened the shutter and traced round the edges of each element, i.e. body, strings, amp etc. This created multiple exposures which I then combined in photoshop (I believe I set the blend mode to screen to keep only the lightest parts). A tripod is essential as neither the camera or the subject can move during any of the exposures and obviously the less ambient light entering the room the better.