How to take Light Trails

AdWright · 19 Oct 2006 at 10:55

Simian said:
That ones Fantastic!... Freaky and quite scary 'Ghost Bus' But Fantastic!!...

Thanks. It was my entry for the 'Motion' competition last month. To get the front of the bus, I had to use second-curtain flash. Poor old bus driver...

cyKey · 19 Oct 2006 at 11:08

AdWright said:
Thanks. It was my entry for the 'Motion' competition last month. To get the front of the bus, I had to use second-curtain flash. Poor old bus driver...

Probably thought it was a gatso or summin

IceAx · 19 Oct 2006 at 11:23

cyKey : Love the one with traffic lights - nice idea!

Andy

DannyDan · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:13

cyKey said:
Pics

If that's where I think it is (near the museum?), I took some from that flyover bridge in your top pic last week:

However after reading all of the advice in this thread i think i'll have to go back and attempt to improve on them

cyKey · 19 Oct 2006 at 18:58

DannyDan said:
If that's where I think it is (near the museum?), I took some from that flyover bridge in your top pic last week:

Haha cool. I was driving past there about an hour ago thinking "Hmmm standing on that bridge and I could get some good long exposures." I was right

Nice pics mate.

hoodmeister · 19 Oct 2006 at 19:08

Another one agreeing that just star trails // headlights etc. are a bit boring by themselves - much like close cropped moon shots.

I went out to shoot star trails, but cloud coming over meant this is what I got - foreground not as lit as I'd like, but would have been better under a clear sky :

Logsi · 19 Oct 2006 at 20:31

All these trails made me want to go and have a try! Not as good as others only started taking pictures since august!, i left a polarizing filter on the lens and gained a strange effect!

havnt done any processing in PS to it, what could i do to it to make it look better? CyKey you seem to process quite a lot, would you mind passing on some knowledge to me?

MarcLister · 19 Oct 2006 at 22:59

-=BAF=-AXE said:
cyKey : Love the one with traffic lights - nice idea!

Andy

So true. I love the traffic light. That for me is the focus of the picture with the light trails rounding out the picture for me if that makes sense? :confused:

Simian · 20 Oct 2006 at 08:41

5bjoshua said:
All these trails made me want to go and have a try! Not as good as others only started taking pictures since august!, i left a polarizing filter on the lens and gained a strange effect!

havnt done any processing in PS to it, what could i do to it to make it look better? CyKey you seem to process quite a lot, would you mind passing on some knowledge to me?

Looks like you cought a Plane there too!!!... :cool:

seth · 12 Dec 2006 at 19:58

Do you lot go out alone to take these? I'd be scared of getting robbed/shot/generally beat up.

cyKey · 12 Dec 2006 at 20:01

seth said:
Do you lot go out alone to take these? I'd be scared of getting robbed/shot/generally beat up.

Never been a problem.

rich_g85 · 12 Dec 2006 at 20:14

I usually go out alone, although I find photography like this is more fun if you go with someone else.

MarcLister · 12 Dec 2006 at 20:23

rich_g85 said:
although I find photography like this is more fun if you go with someone else.

Depends on the kind of photography surely?

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 12 Dec 2006 at 20:37

seth said:
Do you lot go out alone to take these? I'd be scared of getting robbed/shot/generally beat up.

Depends which bedroom window your EF 100 - 400 IS L is pointed at

collisster · 12 Dec 2006 at 22:34

can you do any good photography like this with P&S camera? can someone show pics taken with P&Ss?

cyKey · 12 Dec 2006 at 22:39

collisster said:
can you do any good photography like this with P&S camera? can someone show pics taken with P&Ss?

Taken nearly 4 years ago with my A70. I sold the first at a charity auction and got £100. It went for a lot more as the company took a cut and some went to charity.

collisster · 12 Dec 2006 at 22:48

are you a pro photographer?
as I'm in the light trails thread how do you do them with a P&S ?
is there any good sites for info on how to take a good picture?

cyKey · 12 Dec 2006 at 22:51

collisster said:
are you a pro photographer?
as I'm in the light trails thread how do you do them with a P&S ?
is there any good sites for info on how to take a good picture?

As long as the P&S has manual controls so you can set the shutter speed to say 15 seconds then you can take the picture. Yes I am a pro photographer, I wasn't when I took those two shots though. Just doing it for the love of it

collisster · 13 Dec 2006 at 18:21

ok thanks. my dad has an old pentax film camera. its pretty beefy with a huge lens so I'm assuming its a SLR might have a play with it