Paint with Light with Bree Zav

Service Description

Sunday Spotlight Paint with Light with Bree Zav 11/15 5:00-8:00 PM Sliding Scale/Pay What You Can Ready for a ‘glow-up’?! Light painting, a captivating photography technique, involves using a handheld light source to create moving, luminous artwork in a single exposure. By setting the camera to a longer exposure time, photographers can manipulate the light, capturing its vibrant motion and creating ethereal, visually stunning images. Whether you’re creating surreal portraits, dynamic landscapes, or abstract masterpieces, this hands on experience will show you how to master long-exposure techniques, use light tools, and tell creative stories with light. What You’ll Learn ● The essential gear and camera settings for successful light painting ● How to use handheld lights, LED wands, and custom-built light sources ● Techniques for creating glowing trails, surreal motion effects, and dynamic lighting patterns ● Combining light painting with portrait and street photography ● Creative problem-solving in unpredictable lighting environments ● Post-processing tips for enhancing and refining light-painted images. What to Bring: ● Camera (a Camera phone will work) ● Optional items to bring ● Lights source of some sort (Sparking, Laser pointers, Christmas lights, etc.) Bio: Bree Zav (she/they) is a practicing multidisciplinary artist/creative, organizer, and cultural worker. They picked up a camera at the age of 15 and basically never put one back down. She mostly captures stories through photography, cinematography, and mixed media on canvas. In 2022, they earned a B.A. in Film & Media, where they minored in art, focused in photography.