Meaning of light painting | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The artistic technique of moving a light source to selectively illuminate parts of the subject or scene a camera is recording (at a slow shutter speed), or to shine directly into the camera and in this way sketch.
   uncountable
2. Camera painting, the artistic technique of moving a camera (while it records at a low shutter speed) such that light sources appear in multiple places or as streaks in the resulting photograph, the "painting".
   uncountable
3. A painting created using one of these techniques.
   countable
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see light, painting.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“This key has slightly more midtone but is still a light⟳ painting.”

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