Light Painting, Light Writing or Light Graffiti is so much fun! Seriously addicting! To start, you'll need: SLR camera (35 mm Film or digital) a tripod flashlights, laser pens, glow sticks, sparklers, candles, lighters...anything that lights up! and the dark. And you might want some little assistants! Let's set up the camera first. (and I'll apologize in advance for my grainy phone pictures) I used a Canon Rebel t3...so I'll show you how I set it up on that, and you can find the corresponding buttons on your camera. Set the camera to TV or Time Value. This means you can set the time that your shutter stays open. By turning this circled dial, I can change the time the shutter opens from 1/4000 of a second up to 30 seconds. Here it's set for the full 30 seconds. Which in some of the light art was too long... so you'll have to play around with it a little I've got my ISO set ...