Making a Light Rim (white line light outline) Photo

Put your camera f/stop  (aperture) on f/8

1.      Turn the shutter speed dial to “B”

2.      Attach a cable release to the cable release socket on your camera.

3.      Mount your camera onto a tripod.

4.      With the room lights on, focus on your subject.

5.      Turn the room lights off.

6.      Press the cable release and lock it open.

7.      Use a flashlight as your light source. 

8.      Walk behind your subject, face the flashlight toward the camera lens and turn it on.

9.      Move the flashlight at a slow, steady rate along the outline edge of your subject (as though you were tracing the outline of your subject using a flashlight instead of a pencil).

10.  When you have traced then entire outline, turn your flashlight off..

11.  Go back to the camera and unlock the cable release to close the shutter and complete that frame.

12.  Press the film advance lever to advance to the next frame & get ready to take the next photo.

(Create a bracketed set of light rim photos as follows…)

13.  Repeat steps 6 – 12 again, but this time move the flashlight more quickly along the edge of your subject.

14.  Repeat steps 6 – 12 again, but this time move the flashlight as slowly as you can along the edge of your subject.

15.  Repeat steps 6 – 12 one more time, but this time before you press the cable release, change the aperture from f/8 to f/5.6.