Light painting has long inspired photographers with the technique capturing a moving light source whilst taking a long exposure photograph which is difficult to perfect but can produce exciting results. - Source

...And I am no exception to that. I have been inspired to do this for so long. I've made quite a few light painting using my mobile phone but the results are not that spectacular (neither does the following photographs - since, again, this is an experiment).

Image used in the banner was also captured by me. Thanks!

This series is basically: "Me taking a selfie with lights".

Here's my first photograph for this blog post. I've already edited this in Photoshop. I will show you a GIF of the process later on. This is a self portrait with rows of lights passing in the foreground:

Horizons

How did I achieve this shot and processing?

• I've ordered fairy lights (led in a string of wire) around 2 meters long and is powered through a USB port (I used a power bank to light it up).
• I have mirrorless cameras capable of capturing photographs in long exposure and contains other settings that allows better photography versus mobile phones.

By the way, here's the GIF on how I applied post-processing to this shot using Photoshop CC:

I had to crop it since the wall's post is shown on the right side of the photo and on the left side is a pole-hanger for bags and hats. I added Box Blur on the photos except on the light streaks on the foreground.

Tornado

This second photo shows swirls of lights - this was made using the flashlight of a mobile phone waved in a way that it draws a spiral in the air. This is the original photo (only edit applied was crop):

Here are the next steps on the post-processing process this photograph underwent in Photoshop:

• Tone adjustments to make the image darker:

• Fixed highlights and shadows as well as making the background flatter by removing the shadows of the wall post:

• Lastly, recolored the image to have a warmer tone and added in my watermark too.

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A Tree

This 3rd photograph kind of resembles a Christmas Tree because of its triangular shape. This was made by swinging the fairy light from left to right. This is the cropped and unedited photo:

I applied a few fixes on its colors here and removed detail on the wall's post to make the wall more flat:

Here is my finished photograph of it. I used the smudge tool to add an effect to the background at the sides of the tree. I also did some touch-ups on the tone and made the tone warmer (more red). I also added my watermark on it:

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Thanks for reading!

I certainly hope you have enjoyed this little experiment of mine. This is part 1 and I'll be uploading more photos under my Light Photography series. I hope I could live up to some people's expectation. Do take note that I'm new to this photography thing though (so be easy on me).