Lightpainting toys

I think this might be my first post to the Lightpainters community. The community is full of some fantastically artistic photographers. And now there's me.

I enjoy lightpainting toys. Being a child at heart (and continually immature, as my children will attest) I have a lot of toys. This small collection of toys presented here comes from the American version of Kinder Surprise toys.

For those unfamiliar with Kinder Surprise toys, they are chocolate eggs with a fun toy inside. When I was in college in Canada they were $0.99 Canadian and made the best break from studying. I still have a lot of those toys.

This group of toys came from this years collection and were rather festive in nature. They are all actually intended to be tree ornaments - they all came with small strings and a place to tie the string onto the toy - but I prefer to keep them as simple toys.

For these pictures I used a small lightbox with a black background that I have and a cheap dollar store finger flashlight as a light source. I used the flashlight as a "paint brush," so to speak, to paint the light onto the toys.

These are not as energetic as most of the pictures in the community, but the premise is similar to use a distinct lightsource in a dark location with a long exposure. The result shows incredibly bright and colourful subjects with a dark background.

Camera and Settings:

Sony a58
90mm
f/36
30 second exposure

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(c) All images and photographs, unless otherwise specified, are created and owned by me.
(c) Victor Wiebe

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Sometimes photographer. Wannabe author. Game designer. Nerd. 
General all around problem-solver and creative type.

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