This morning we all did some jobs, and I gave my office a spring clean before going through the family portrait photos that I did with my friends on Dec 28th.
This afternoon we drove over to Leicester so that the kids and Rebecca could spend some their Christmas money and gift tokens. After successful visits to Sheehans (for drums sticks, guitar leads, straps and stands), Superdry for clothes, Schuh for new DCs and Waterstones for new books it was off to Carluccio's for tea.
I was supposed to take my shot on the other side of Leicester after scouting it out earlier, but I tried some light trails from the bridge between High Cross shopping centre and its car park, and was happy enough to call it a day. I didn't have my tripod so balanced the camera on the handrail!
Then home to watch the best 50 Bond moments and the new Attenborough Africa series that we had recorded. Both fantastic. If you haven't seen Africa get on the BBC IPlayer and watch it if you have an hour to spare.
Impressive light trails Sean how did you capture them ? ( remembering I'm a novice!) Watched David Attenboroughs Galapagos tonight- not quite as dramatic as Africa but very absorbing .
Great light trails Sean! I think you had an action-packed Saturday! As Ingrid says @ingrid2101 the stories behind the shot make people real to me. All the best in the New Year.
@ccb@jantan It's easy really. Obviously you need a tripod and a decent head on vantage point. Motorway bridges are alway good, particularly if their is acurve on the road. Then you need a shutter speed long enough to capture enough light trails, and an aperture that will give you good strong focus throughout the shot. So I chose f/13 and 20 seconds. You can be clever and merge your shots to create enough light, or stack duplicate layers as well and blend them.
@jantan@ccb Good luck to both of you when you decide to have a go! Celia, I don't know if there are any likely places but I'd be looking to do something on a bridge near Carcassonne if you can get it in the background all lit up?
Fun fun fun!! Lovely light trails!! and lots of lovely goodies to take home! The Africa series is amazing I will never regard a giraffe in quite the same way again!! I love the end when they actually explain how it was taken.......30 days for 2 minute shooting!!
@automaticslim The building on the left is a new John Lewis, and it is a beautiful decorated glass building. I should go back and take some of the building.
