I recently bought a spotlight to do some light painting. Here are two photographs from my first night out with the light. In the first, my spotlight lit the island in the middle of the lake.






In this photo I lit the soccer goal. I found out by trial and error that the effect works best if the object is lit from the side. It's kind of like getting the flash off the top of the camera. I put the camera on timer and then ran to a spot where the light hitting the goal would be from an angle. This would be a good setting to photograph a soccer all-star.

A lucky mistake

This photograph is the result of a happy accident. I set up two flashes on the ground in front of my house to take photographs of my daughters on Halloween. I was having trouble getting the flash on the left to fire. It did not fire in this frame.

Louie the kitten just happened to sit by the pumpkins for a few seconds. Too bad Louie is not a black cat.

Both flashes fired in this photograph of one of my neighbors.