December Holiday 3

Christmas light ribbons from my front step. I love light writing- you never know how they're going to turn out with a p & s camera!

No need to comment on this massive upload. I am catching up with my December posts.

[Dorrena Ortega]

Cool! I'm gonna have to try this. I don't know how long my camera stays open but when it's dark, it seem like it takes forever for it to get the picture.

[Tara]

I love this one Ann! Lots of color and fun!

[Cathy Donohoue]

I love it!

[Kerri]

Cool

[Maggiemae]

How can you do this in I sec?

[Bev]

Very cool... I can't ever get words. Just bizarre shapes. Very pretty shot. Well done.

[Sally Ings]

Great abstract, very colourful!

[Vickie Posey]

This is very bright and pretty. It reminds me of that ribbon Christmas candy. Nice job :-)

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@dmortega Thanks Dorrena! I often say I have a rinky-dink p&s but every now and then I must confess it does a bang-up job on certain shots. In this one it just caught the color so well. It's easier to do this if you have a bulb setting like the old 35mms did. I've had to adjust to my p/s camera's preset limitations, but I can slow the ISO down to 80 so that helps. To compensate, I just start moving the camera as I'm pushing on the shutter.
@tara11 Thank you Tara!
@cdonohoue Thank you Kathy!
@kerristephens thank you Kerri!
@maggiemae Thanks Maggie- very quickly! I slow my camera down as much as the presetting will allow me to by setting the ISO at 80 and I start to move the camera as I'm pressing down on the shutter. I never know what I'm going to get though!
@prttblues Thanks Bev- and if you see a word here, it's unintentional. I was just making squiggly wavy lines as I took the shot.
@salza Thanks Sally!
@vposey Thanks Vickie- that's exactly what I thought too! If I wasn't titling these challenge shots in a way I can keep them in order, I would have called it Ribbons of Light.

[Phil]

Woo lovely!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@filsie65 Thanks Phil!

[SIMMY]

Fab shot, lots of fun

[Dorrena Ortega]

Sweet! I'll try to have a go at it before the end of this month. Thanks.

[Colleen]

Ribbon candy!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@simster thanks Simmy!
@dmortega I'll look forward to seeing what you'll do!
@httpgeffed thanks Colleen- my thoughts exactly!

[Rick Schies]

Very interesting reuslts.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@digitalrn Thanks Rick!

[Terry]

great idea,,

[Nicole Campbell]

It looks like you had fun playing with this shot Ann.

[Dione Giorgio]

Very interesting shot, Ann. Love the colours.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@sarasdadandmom @nicolecampbell @sangwann

Thank you Terry- I try!
Thank you Nicole- always do!
Thank you Dione!

[8yearson]

Amazing photo with a modest camera.... Just goes to show that it is the photographer not the camera that gets the results.... Well done!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@jackie8 Thank you Jackie! Although I'd love to have a better camera, I have learned a few tricks in working with this one. I found that if I start moving the camera before I press the shutter I get longer light ribbons. This one came out pretty nice!

[bkb in the city]

Very cool

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@bkbinthecity Thanks Brian! These are fun to do.

[MaryBeth Dailey]

This is a fun shot! I am going to try this soon! I don't think you EVEr know what you are going to get..even with a DSLR!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@espyetta Thanks MaryBeth- well, especially with a p & s that you cannot manipulate the shutter with!

[summerfield]

lovely light ribbons, ann. if you must know, i get that all the time even with the dslr, even when i concentrate. :-)

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@summerfield Thanks Vikki- just a fun one here.

[Tara]

This is so much fun - I was experimenting with the same on my Christmas tree. This turned out really nice!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@tara11 Thanks Tara!