Motion blur or Having fun with Siblings
I was out one evening with my sister, and she was shooting with her point and shoot. We all know how good point and shoot cameras are with being hand held in low lighting conditions! She showed me a blurry image with light trails of a neon sign and asked what happened. I started to explain it to her, while showing her the images on the LCD of the DSLR. That allowed me to vary the shutter speed and its easy to see the motion of the camera since its so much larger (huge, and heavy I should say. Canon IDsMkII).
So we played around for a while trying to different looks by changing the motion of the camera and shutter speed. Up and down, side to side, in small circles. with some zoom, and so on. We had a great time and make some interesting images. We tried a dozen different signs and lights to see the effects and try our luck at one-upsmanship! Here are a few more showing some of the variations of the one sign. If you look at the bottom edges of the images, you can see the motion that was used to create the effect.
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Where did you find that neon light? I’d like to go there too and try it myself!
Great job, as usual. By the way, don’t you happen to be looking for an assistant???
It’s just a short hop and skip to Aruba. I shot that outside the casino at the downtown harbor in Aruba. But it does work with any sort of lights, neon, whatever. Not currently looking for an assistant. Sorry