After experimenting with the torches and playing about with light and learning how to use darkness and backgrounds in order to make a perfect silhouette,  it was time to combine both in a different way – drawing with light.

I had never tried using the shutter speed of the camera before so much experimentation was needed in order to achieve the desired result.  The excitement in the classroom was fantastic when we reviewed our photographs. Everyone in the class was able to create a light drawing.

When we reviewed our work at the end of the session we came to various conclusions – some torches had brighter lights than others and some torches produced light in broken lines – which gave a completely different line structure to the photos, some of our torches also projected a more orange/golden tone to the light.

I remember thinking to myself that the project couldn’t possibly get much better in terms of the skills being taught and used and in terms of the end results – how wrong was I – this was just the beginning.