Photography is an important element within fashion design that helps fashion designers document the process, capture bodily movements, and demonstrate the outcomes when presenting. This work has used photography as a sketching brush through the long-exposure technique to ideate the diversity of colors, transparencies, and abstract bodies. The outcomes were a visual resource of light trails with different colors, and shapes. These were used as inspirations for new surface- and texture expressions like heat-transfer printing and embroidery, transparency experiments, and layers. The results are five design samples that illustrated different solutions for combining color, layer, clarity, different texture expressions, and abstract silhouettes while using the long-exposure photography technique as the primary sketching method, in various hierarchy orders. Consequently, this method can become a new contribution to fashion design as a new design method and design approach.