My first light painting.

"Light painting is a technique in which light sources are projected or "painted" in selective areas during the camera exposure." Chris Becker.

In other words you open the camera shutter when there is little or no source of light and then, using a flashlight or other source of illumination, start selectively painting your subject with the light.

I suppose you could consider this weekend's night sky photo as a form of light painting, albeit with a C5 jumbo jet wielding the light source some six miles up above. That photo was exposed for sixteen seconds. This one had an ISO of 1250, f/22, and exposure of 4.5 secs.

For this photo Zeke and I were shut in our top secret, ultra-dark basement office with curtains drawn, computer LEDs extinguished, and subject comfortably resting on the couch. Camera on a tripod, 50mm/1.8 lens, lights turned on long enough to get focus and set aperture.

With the ML3 wireless remote the D70 can be set to "bulb" mode: the first click opens the shutter and it stays open until the next click. With flashlight at the ready I fired the remote and crazily swung light across poor Zeke's graying muzzle and eyes.

Most of the shots came out bad as Zeke tended to roll his eyes in confusion/disgust and do that crazy dog eyebrow thing.