Picasso

By Amie Tucker

• Picasso original black and white photo.

Exposure time: 5 secondsF number: 4.5

Edited black and white

Exposure time: 20 secondsF number: 22

Edited photograph

• Picasso original in colour

My unedited colourPicasso

How photo is taken

• Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with light sources.

About Picasso

• A Spanish painter who is widely known to be the most important artist of the 20th century. He experimented with a wide range of styles and themes in his long career.

• In 1949 he met someone from LIFE magazine who used to take photos of ice-skaters with lights on their boots. These created interesting images which inspired Picasso’s light drawings.