Patna: Around 40 children at Kilkari Bihar Bal Bhavan learnt the nuances of light painting, a part of night photography, at the seven-day workshop that ended at Kilkari's Saidpur premises on Tuesday.

The children were taught how to illuminate large foreground objects with the help of different sources of light and capture the frame.

Resource person Abhishek Choubey, an alumnus of the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, who was roped in by Kilkari for the workshop, started by teaching basics of photography like shutter speed, aperture and ISO.

The workshop ended with students learning about light photography.

"Light painting, a part of night photography, is a fun technique in which we use different light sources, such as laser and torch light, to paint light into a scene," said Abhishek. He also spoke of the challenges.

"When you take photographs in the moonlight, you have to keep your shutter speed low besides increasing ISO for getting better frame. However, if you shoot with slow shutter speed the frame would naturally get blurred. But the photographer has to learn how to take advantage of this. Students were taught this," he said.

Abhishek said he didn't find it hard to teach students.

"Many of my old students joined the workshop. I divided students into two groups in which I kept both old and new students. The old students helped the new ones understand the subject. Children used to come in around 7.30am and shoot till 1-2am. All of us stayed at Kilkari only during night and used to leave the campus early in the morning. I found children lot of enthusiastic for the workshop," he said while adding that light painting.

"It was exciting," said Vaishnavi, 14, who participated in the workshop.

Mohammad Azmad said: "The workshop was quite enriching."