I posted this because I've been having trouble taking a self-portrait with fairy lights. On flickr there are thousands of incredible pictures where people have wrapped themselves in lights, or a pet and posted it online, but I'm not sure how they have achieved that effect. What happened when I tried to do it is I ended up being all washed out or invisible, while the lights are barely noticeable. This is definitely something I'll have to keep practicing, but yay I learnt about different shutter speeds.
It is important to set up your camera on a tripod so there is no camera shake when you take these pictures because the time it takes to get the picture you want can get up to thirty seconds if you use the same method I implemented. I had the camera set to manual and obviously set the camera to different f-stops and exposure times as listed below. You can either set the time for two seconds so you dont cause the camera when you press the shutter button or use a remote control like I did. Have fun :)
My experimentation (fairly successful, but when I tried to insert myself, it went horribly wrong)
F-Stop: F4.5
Exposure Time: 1/10 seconds
ISO: 400
Flash: None
White Balance: Auto
F-Stop: F22
Exposure Time: 30 seconds
ISO: 400
Flash: None
White Balance: Auto
F-Stop: F1.8
Exposure Time: 1/10 seconds
ISO: 400
Flash: None
White Balance: Auto
F-Stop: F1.8
Exposure Time: 1/10 seconds
ISO: 400
Flash: None
White Balance: Auto
F-Stop: F22
Exposure Time: 15 seconds
ISO: 400
Flash: None
White Balance: Auto
F-Stop: F6.3
Exposure Time: 1/3 seconds
ISO: 400
Flash: None
White Balance: Auto
F-Stop: F4.5
Exposure Time: 1/10 seconds
ISO: 400
Flash: None
White Balance: Auto
F-Stop: F1.8
Exposure Time: 1/125 seconds
ISO: 400
Flash: None
White Balance: Auto
F-Stop: F22
Exposure Time: 1/10 seconds
ISO: 400
Flash: None
White Balence: Auto
F-Stop: F22
Exposure Time: 1/200 seconds
ISO: 400
Flash: None
White Balance: Auto
Some Flickr examples
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