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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
light painting en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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.
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(uncountable) 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".
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(countable) A painting created using one of these techniques.
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(countable, uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see light, painting.
This key has slightly more midtone but is still a light painting.
2011, Jo Taylor, Watercolour Wisdom, page 92:
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