** Welcome to Photography Forum Challenge for December 2013**

Night photography, light painting, moving water, 
cloud movement, panning, wind blowing trees...

**  ...½** a second or longer.

Take your time..!

Please remember:

Two images per member per week.

Image size: No larger than:
800pixels X 600pixels
and 200KB

Wayne

Wayne

These are great Wayne.

Thanks Wayne, great 'hand writing'!

Well done Wayne and a good idea :)  

8 second exposure

Oooohh!  That's a true challenge for me.  I think I've done this ... oh ... maybe twice in my life.  I've made a note to remind myself to try it.  Excellent challenge, Clive!

Hi Photo people!
First I would like to express my compliments to Clive.
Your introduction of this theme is designed so incredibly creative.
Applause.

I'm going to figure out how to do this.
And I really admire the entries of Wayne, 3DGuy and Helle.
Bravo!
p.s. @ Helle, I first thought yours was a collage. :)

Thank you, Mies!

Hopefully this will be a good one with all of the festive lights at this time of the year!

Well done, Helle!

Great idea to include the exposure time, 3DGuy!

Great job Wayne, Helle and 3DGuy.  An interesting challenge.  Aloha...Errol

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Thank you, Mies!

You're welcome Clive.

Hopefully this will be a good one with all of the festive lights at this time of the year!

Oh yeah, all the party lights, indeed that's very applicable.
Now I will be forced to start reading the instructions of my camera ;-)

Tennessee Valley Fair,              Ferris wheel    1/2  second

Both photo's are beautiful tennesseecowgirl...   Aloha

Cool shots cowgirl :)

NEW YEARS EVE.

Wow!   Very nice Garageland...   Aloha

I dont have enough time so close to Christmas, but oh my how I love this New years eve. So beautifully done. !! I had atleast to say that, GARAGELAND.

Keep up the good work friends.

Ooh, that's vivid with the red and blue contrasting eachother.

Cool stuff, everybody!  :)

Here are my two for the week. 

Skyline San Francisco 30 sec exposure 

Very nice work Costa...   

Nice idea Clive.  I will have to sse if I can get out and shoot something.  And thanks for using one of my shots in the example banner :)

I'm sure enjoying all these photographs!  Very inspiring.

I tried some slow shutter water shots today, but haven't looked at 'em yet.  If you don't see anything from me, it's because they're crap!  LOL!  I'm hoping at least one of them turned out ... I've not done that sort of thing before.  We also have a date with Lucinda (myrrhluz) for a Friday night tripod shoot at San Antonio's river walk.  I have hopes of getting something there, as well.  :)

I think this is one I will enjoy Tara.  I love night shooting,  And honey is going to try tonight for some Christmas light shots.  I will have to pray it stops raining for her.

I am sure you have some good water shots sweetie :)   And I hope the shoot goes well for you.  IF you want some tips about shutter speeds etc, you know where I am

I'd love some tips on night shooting, Ronnie!  That would be outstanding.  Thanks!  :)

Well the first thing I would suggest is the lowest ISO you have.  Secondly a cable release is an absolute must,  if using a low iso, because shutter speeds will be slow.  I know the more modern cameras have high usable iso's but the low iso/shutter speeds will give a more ethereal water and atmosphere too.  If you'd like star lights on the point sources of light, ie street lamps etc.  Choose a smallish aperture. 

I like to shoot ISO 50 f/22.  gives a long shutter time on the "Bulb" setting of the camera.  And also helps to create better star-bursts on lights.   I usually start at 15 seconds, and if it looks too dark, start going a bit longer.   If you can't get down to 50 then iso 100 and obviously double the shutter time.  I have had on occasions a whole minute :)  Also shooting in RAW helps, so you can rescue and blown highlights in raw post.  It's all suck it and see really sweetie.  The rule book will tell you f/11 and it's corresponding shutter speed via aperture priority.  But I do prefer the bulb setting method.  Up to you really.

I should have said half the shutter time for 100 ISO.  It's late and I had a senior moment :)

Thank you, hon!  I'll print this out and take it with me.  :)  I read your note to Bill, and he's excited to try the bulb setting as well.  His mom used to use it for fireworks (pre-digital of course) and he really liked the results she got.  (Must have been pretty impressive, because that would have been in the early 1950s, and it's stuck with him all this time!  LOL!)

Good that it has stuck.  Knowledge gleaned is knowledge saved as my old Nan used to say.

Back tomorrow, I hear the faint cry of a memory foam mattress saying "Come to me, come to me"

That's absolutely gorgeous :)

Very nice..these are fun and gently pleasing, like the still of the night or fun as the festive moments.  My Christmas lights photos are too shot of an exposure.

Good jobs, folks...Thomas

Beautiful work Garageland...  Aloha

Nice one Garageland.  I think this could be a popular challenge.   I still need to get out and shoot something, but the weather is against me at the moment in the UK.

Very nice Priska...its a different game shooting at nights.   Aloha

Agree with Errol.  Nightime is a whole new ballgame.  Nice one Priska

going for startrails I shot   Venus

39 se F11 ISO 100

I wish I knew the stars and planets more, something I'm learning now...Thanks

One of my watches. 8 second exposure @ F16 @ ISO200 :)

The triangles on the left is the second hand ticking.

Interesting idea 3DGuy.   Good to see everyones settings.   Aloha

wowwow Venus! first i think you made a joke prutzworks! thats a looooong exposure!

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.. and cool watch at nigth 3Dguy

The moment a match ignites