Try this maybe.

[peachy]

1. Use a tripod, or stabilize your camera on a flat surface.

2. Set your ISO setting as low as it will go.

3. Set your aperture to F10/F11.

4. Set your exposure time to 2 or more seconds. Then, when you snap the long-exposure photograph, zoom your lens all the way in our out to stretch out the lights you see.

eg

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Edit - I haven't done this, but might try it out .

 

[UaeExile]

Go on then....

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[Icarebecauseyoudo]

Go on then....

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You'll probably get a fatwa for that

 

[UaeExile]

You'll probably get a fatwa for that

For crimes against photography

EDIT: Was actually quite fun seeing the results in camera.

 

[Icarebecauseyoudo]

For crimes against photography

EDIT: Was actually quite fun seeing the results in camera.

Whenever I've seen this done it has those wobbly lines, as it's very difficult to keep the lens stable

Dunno how Peachy's image was done, looks suspiciously like computer graphics?

 

[UaeExile]

Whenever I've seen this done it has those wobbly lines, as it's very difficult to keep the lens stable

Dunno how Peachy's image was done, looks suspiciously like computer graphics?

I think it's doable. Seen plenty where the bursts are straight as an arrow.

 

[Icarebecauseyoudo]

I think it's doable. Seen plenty where the bursts are straight as an arrow.

I guess so

 

[MaDMaCKeM]

probably done using powerzoom on a bridge or similar?

 

[Lonz]

I get told off for doing light-trails in my club work some times.

 

[peachy]

I get told off for doing light-trails in my club work some times.

Told off?

 

[Lonz]

Told off?

More by my peers than clients. A few people think it looks cheap and tacky. I think it can be done tastefully.

 

[smoker]

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Taken coming out of the pub at Kielder star camp in '12.

 

[UaeExile]

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Taken coming out of the pub at Kielder star camp in '12.

Looks like it would make a canny dogging spot that. Where was it again?

 

[smoker]

Looks like it would make a canny dogging spot that. Where was it again?

It's the path from the Anglers Arms to the campsite, after a few bevvies.

 

[UaeExile]

It's the path from the Anglers Arms to the campsite, after a few bevvies.

Next to a campsite too. Definite dogging site!