Disclosed are a mobile terminal and a shooting method thereof. The shooting method comprises the steps of: collecting, by a camera, image data continuously; conducting an addition operation on the current image data and the past image data, so as to generate a synthetic image; and displaying the synthetic image in real time. Thus, an image superposition technique is adopted to simulate long-time exposure, which adds a light painting function to a mobile terminal, so that a user can use the light painting function of the mobile terminal to conduct artistic creation, and can preview the creation effect in real time, thereby improving the user experience.