Photography : Light Trails
One of the many things I love about digital cameras is how it allows us to experiment.
Shoot at different angles, try out its many functions and see (or delete) the results IMMEDIATELY (read: no waiting at photolabs, no printing costs).
And so for today, I just thought I share with you these shots Anya and I took today, which you may want to try out too someday!
We used the ‘night mode’ feature on our Ixus (with the flash turned on).
With ‘night mode’, the object and the ‘camera handler’ are supposed to be completely still (for a few seconds) in order for the camera to capture all the lights nicely.
But if you focus on a particular object, click on the shutter release button, then follow the moving object, you get interesting shots with light trails. Like the one above (Anya was half-running at the playground at about 7pm when I took that shot).
Anyway.
Later that night, Anya asked for my IXUS and quitely ‘played’ with it in our bedroom while I had my dinner. After a few minutes, she came and showed me these two shots below.
She told me she ‘extended’ her arm ‘outside’ our bedroom window and took shots of the road traffic. And she was sort of puzzled by the funny results. I then explained in simple terms what’s happened and how she just used the ‘night mode’ feature. Thus, the interesting light trails.
She was excited and took a few more shots of ‘dark places with lights’ while moving her hands a bit.
It’s kinda like ‘drawing’, she said. Hehe.
[First photo below]
I love this particular shot she took. It looks like a school of dolphins jumping out of the sea together!
