It's been so long since Wall-E had his photoshoot because he sadly met an accident a few months back. :( After what happened, I even thought of just keeping him in his box, but thinking about the availability of this figure nowadays (getting a Revoltech Wall-E is so expensive nowadays), I decided to just give him some minor repair and voila! My Wall-E is alive! ^_^

To get started, I used two sets of christmas lights, two lampshades (the head was wrapped in a thin cloth which acts as a diffuser) and a sheet of black felt paper (for the background) coz the darker, the better. I just positioned my camera across where the figures are. I used a 50mm 1.8 lens, which I currently have at that time, you may use a standard kit lens (18-55mm), doesn't matter because we'll just use a small aperture for light painting.

1. Prepare your camera for a long exposure shot by setting it to 5 seconds, f/8.0 and ISO 100. This is the part where you have to experiment. I played with 5 seconds and f/8 as a trial and error at first until I get the thickness of the light streaks that I want. Yeah, actually it matters! If you're familiar at how a camera's aperture works which is, the bigger the apperture, the larger amount of light it will get in.

I was also playing with light photography! I knew the atmosphere should be bloody, dark and but due to lack of red material to use as a softbox for my lamp, I used my pink bedroom lamp instead. For the light painting, I used christmas lights and swayed it around her while my camera was taking a long exposure shot.