GEAR FOR PAINTING WITH LIGHT
Although there’s a whole industry dedicated to fancy light-painting gadgets and gizmos, all you really need to get started is a pen torch, such as a Mini MagLite. This can be used as a regular light source to play over areas of a scene from different angles; you can also remove the lens bezel to expose the bulb and use it as a point light source to trace around subjects. To further enhance your light-painting kit, a set of batterypowered LED string lights gives you a great tool for swirls, streaks and criss-cross grids of light. If you want to be more innovative still, you can use anything that emits some kind of glow, from a sparkler to a smartphone.