Naquada

I saw Jim yesterday, and we were talking about various things, and the Boing Boing blog came up in conversation, which I started to read late last night, and I found what I think is some of the cleverest / fun sets of long exposure photos I’ve seen for a while.

Alexia Abegg’s Flickr stream has a great collection of photos taken on long exposure with sparklers. There’s quite a few really nice photos in there, I particularly like this one, although I’m wondering if Alexia used a tripod or held the camera.

I’m thinking it was hand held as quite a few of the images have blurred backgrounds and main subjects, on some they work really well with the blurring, on others the picture would have been absolutely fantastic with a clear subject, although it would depend on shutter times for the person to keep absolutely stationary I guess! Even so these are really nice and different photos.

A long time ago, when I was thin, young and living at home, my sister took some long exposure photos of my fire swinging which created some really nice photos. If you’re wondering.. Fire swinging is pretty much what it sounds like; swinging a pole, or two clubs that have flaming ends around your body at high speed, which produces not only a great visual display, but something called ‘firenoise’, the sound the the flames whooshing round your body. I will have to find the photos and get them up onto my flickr account at some point, or better still take some new ones!

I’ve yet to work out if the Canon 350D has an ‘open shutter’ mode or not, it definitely has a 30 second exposure, but I guess I really should read the manual on that one!!

Love the photos Alexia!!!

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