G.C.S.E.
Photography – Light Trails
Let’s Get Started
Have you used Photoshop?
What have you used
Photoshop for, the types of
images you have produced?
Describe the skills you have
developed in Photoshop?
You have five minutes
before you feedback to the class.
BIG PICTURE
How to analyse images and
control the manual settings of
the camera for light trails.
KEYWORDS
Composition, framing, rule of
thirds, focus exposure, shutter
speed
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Be able to analyse the light trail
images and photographers to
inform what you will create.
SUCCESS CRITERIA
Analyse an image using the
criteria. Complete the analysis
of a light trails photographer.
Those here last week begin
planning your photo shoot.
Take your seat. Bag under
your desk.
Photoshop
 Light Trails – Task 3
Plan and produce your own light trail or light
art photograph.

You should look at creating light trails and

light writing which could then be used within
other images you have taken.

See blog for more information on this.

I want you all to have taken some images by the end
of the lesson for your first practice
1. Contact Sheet

You can create this to evidence all the images you have taken in
Photoshop.

2. Pick three best Images and upload high res versions of them to
the blog.

3. Analyses these images – You MUST be detailed in your review –

this is one quarter of the mark self evaluation.
G.C.S.E. Photography – Light Trails
Lets Review Next Lesson
Begin capturing and editing
• How successful were your shoots? images for your final light trail.

• What might you do to improve them?

• How are you going to create an edited light
trail image?

An interesting short video suggesting some ideas about light trails