A Stitch in Time...

[brewmaster15]

Finally set out some Christmas Cheer last night in the yard. Played with Streaking the light. Its hand held camera, focus and slow shutter speed, move camera. Abstract fun.

IMGP8659 by Al Sabetta, on Flickr



IMGP8656 by Al Sabetta, on Flickr



IMGP8647 by Al Sabetta, on Flickr



IMGP8619 by Al Sabetta, on Flickr



IMGP8674 by Al Sabetta, on Flickr



IMGP8663 by Al Sabetta, on Flickr



IMGP8616 by Al Sabetta, on Flickr



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IMGP8661 by Al Sabetta, on Flickr

[Second Hand Pat]

Those are cool Al. I am planning on playing with lights and my camera as my Christmas decorations go up.
Pat

[Debow]

Very cool ! I love it.

[Jenene]

Those are awesome Al! Nicely done!

[LizStreithorst]

They are cool indeed but not what rings my bell. The one I like best is the one that is the least abstract...the third one.

[Jack L]

nice, like 1st one the best

[brewmaster15]

Thanks everyone. You can pretty much do this with any camera in some capacity. Just kind of fun to play around with.

Al

[CrazyAngels]

I love it Al. Back many years ago with film camera I used to do this in early 70's by going to top of twin peaks in San Francisco to take pictures of the Bay Bridge and downtown SF using this method. you brought back some good childhood memories.

thanks for sharing

[brewmaster15]

I love it Al. Back many years ago with film camera I used to do this in early 70's by going to top of twin peaks in San Francisco to take pictures of the Bay Bridge and downtown SF using this method. you brought back some good childhood memories.

thanks for sharing

And that my friend is the real reason we take pictures!

-al

[Discus-n00b]

Clearly I was sleeping and missed this post. Those are really neat, like light painting almost. Have you tried similar hand holding a light source with a static camera?

[Second Hand Pat]

Clearly I was sleeping and missed this post. Those are really neat, like light painting almost. Have you tried similar hand holding a light source with a static camera?

That is called light painting Matt? As in used with long exposures.
Pat

[Discus-n00b]

I've heard light painting used mainly 2 ways. One being sort of like this where someone is moving a light around, spelling something in the air, etc and it comes out as streaks as seen above. To me, personally I more think of light painting as you would light different areas of a car or object in a dark scene to illuminate it from the rest of the image. Or lighting a foreground in a astro image. I just use it interchangeably in case someone uses it for the other one, they both work really.