Light Painting – Kingwood Photo Club

Jay Mangum, a club member, was our featured Program Speaker this last month. His talk was on one of my favorite subjects, night photography. However, he added artificial light to his portraits to bring a more dramatic scene to life.

With some great equipment tips, fantastic night photos and photo settings he prepared us for our next trek into the wilds with camera and tripod. Some of his safety tips included checking the weather before heading out for a long hike. Bad weather can be really bad when you are in an open field with no cover. Carry extra flash lights and triple the batteries and if planning a long hike, check it out during the day for potential problems. Walking at night is so different than walking during the day. Safety first as we all want to get home with these award winning photos.

Jay was kind enough to let me post his PowerPoint so you can take your time reviewing and learning from his experience. Excellent talk by one of our own!

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Jay Mangum will talk about light painting to enhance and highlight landscapes, with the added element of light from stars, the moon, pre-dawn or post-sunset glow, and in some cases artificial light sources over which we have little or no control such as street lights, car lights and city lights.

In the 1950’s, Jay’s father was an enthusiastic amateur photographer, developing and enlarging his own black and white work at home. Jay’s photo journey began at age 6, using a Brownie box camera to take photos of active steam locomotives alongside his Dad during the twilight years of steam.

Jay has carefully preserved his library of large format color slides taken of professional dragsters from 1965 to 1973 – a collection that is referenced today by racing historians. Magazines, books, calendars and websites have featured his work. Today, Jay’s primary photo interests are landscapes, travel and birds.

A resident of Kingwood since 1991 and a member of our club, he retired as an Account Manager for Otis Elevator Company in 2009. Career moves with Otis took him to several landscape photo opportunity regions including Denver, Tulsa, Savannah and Chattanooga. Jay and his wife, Jan, have 3 children and seven grand kids.