{"id":1549,"date":"2011-07-21T14:41:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T14:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2011-09-28T16:11:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:11:20","slug":"light-writing-painting-photography-sony-dsc-hx1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/light-writing-painting-photography-sony-dsc-hx1","title":{"rendered":"Light Writing or Painting Photography with Sony DSC HX1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It always feels good to have a capable camera and it feels even better to explore new capacities of my Sony DSC-HX1 \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nAfter entering into manual mode and understanding a bit of photography basics, I turned exploring something really creative and exciting in photography.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Light Writing<\/strong>&#8230; quite self explanatory, writing with the light source and importantly making sense there-after \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>What it takes to take a light writing?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Exposure: A long exposure time is a basic requirement for your camera. My Sony DSC-HX1 provides enough long exposure time, 30 sec.<br \/>\n&#8211; A tripod: Without a steady support you won&#8217;t be able get the perfect shot. Anything more than 1 second has a risk of introducing &#8220;hand-shaking&#8221; effect in your capture. I don&#8217;t have tripod but I managed. \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n&#8211; Light Source: A light emitting source.<br \/>\n&#8211; A dark place, really dark :).<br \/>\n&#8211; Have your ISO least and aperture value higher. Play a bit with settings, you&#8217;ll figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>Also you have to imagine a virtual surface and sense of in-focus area, to capture a perfect light writing sample.<\/p>\n<p>Below are my first captures into &#8220;light writing&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>First Word: Love (expressing my love towards Sony DSC-HX1)<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1550\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1550\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/love.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/love-1024x832.jpg\" alt=\"love-light-writing\" title=\"love-light-writing\" width=\"465\" height=\"377\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/love-1024x832.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/love-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/love.jpg 2070w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Love<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nF-Number: F\/3.5<br \/>\nExposure Time: 5 Sec.<br \/>\nISO: ISO-125<\/p>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s me in the back&#8230; and that&#8217;s why proper darkness is required.<br \/>\nAlso, do remember, camera will capture a mirror image and you&#8217;ll have to do basic editing!<\/p>\n<p>and my name: Krex<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/krex.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/krex-1024x789.jpg\" alt=\"krex-light-writing\" title=\"krex-light-writing\" width=\"465\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/krex-1024x789.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/krex-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/krex.jpg 1234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nF-Number: F\/3.5<br \/>\nExposure Time: 5 Sec.<br \/>\nISO: ISO-125<\/p>\n<p>More later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It always feels good to have a capable camera and it feels even better to explore new capacities of my Sony DSC-HX1 \ud83d\ude42 After entering into manual mode and understanding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[199,198,84,197,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-1549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-personal","7":"tag-light-photography","8":"tag-light-writing","9":"tag-photography","10":"tag-sony-dsc","11":"tag-sony-dsc-hx1"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedar.nitty-witty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}