Light Paintings with Sara Faye Agnew
Photographer Justin Samson and local artist Sara Faye Agnew have been working on a project they’re calling Painting with Light, using a photographic technique that captures the movement of light during long exposures. There are many ways to paint with light, several of which are displayed here. In this series of photographs, glow sticks, sparklers, flashlights, and spinning steel wool were used to create light effects.
Each photo was taken on a tripod with slow shutter speeds ranging from 10 to 30 seconds. The ISO is set as low as possible for maximum quality, using a medium aperture, f/6.3-f/13, to maintain a sharp focus throughout the image and to control the light exposure. The artists wanted to capture well-known spots around the Sunshine Coast and show them in a different way. The project started with the glow-stick photo on top of Soames Hill under a super moon and grew from there. Some of the other locations include Davis Bay pier and beach, the totem poles at the Sechelt Indian Band, Gospel Rock, Armours Beach, and the Gibsons skateboard park.
