a special form of light painting by summerfield

a special form of light painting

my get-pushed challenge for last week was so special i had to wait until i get back to work this week. @homeschoolmom challenged me to do a special form of light painting. of course, my office building downtown and the other neighbouring towers are perfect specimen for this technique. i wish i had a wider lens so i could've gotten more perfect light circles. quite fun to do, you should've seen the reaction of the people passing by as i looked at this and i pumped my fist into the air yelling "yessssss!!"

the building below is our office tower, the RBC plaza south tower and the building on top is one of the brookfield towers. there's a fog that was starting to descend but i'm glad the outline of the top of the buildings was retained and didn't get lost in the movement.

i shall try to do this again when the weather is nicer. i'm pretty sure this would look spectacular during the blue hour. or maybe when the northster and i go photo-ing next.
@homeschoolmom - lisa, here's the assignment you gave me? hope you will like it. i tried with the Christmas tree, it was a big fail. but this is what i was waiting to do. thank you for the push!
January 4th, 2017  
you actually got the center of the circle at the tip of the building. awesome.
January 4th, 2017  
I adore this and would be interested in reading more about the technique. It's not the kind of light painting with which I'm familiar.
January 4th, 2017  
This is very cool! What did you do to get the circle of light?
January 4th, 2017  
Fabulous and fav!
January 4th, 2017  
So cool!!
January 4th, 2017  
@francoise @squamloon @northy - thanks, you guys!

long exposure, pointing the camera straight up then rotating it 360 degrees for about 5 seconds.
January 4th, 2017  
@joysfocus - thank you, joy.

@kwind - thank you, kim.
January 4th, 2017  
Elegant in its simplicity
January 4th, 2017  
Love this, excellent
January 4th, 2017  
Very cool
January 4th, 2017  
This is so intriguing! The reflections and rings are rather mysterious.
January 4th, 2017  
Creative and fun! Cooling image for sure. Fav!
January 4th, 2017  
fantastic shot! Fav!
January 4th, 2017  
That is fab, how many attempts did you do? Fav as aces!
January 4th, 2017  
Just superb! So creative and what an amazing response to your challenge!
January 4th, 2017  
such a cool shot
January 4th, 2017  
Brilliant idea for a photo
January 4th, 2017  
very creative and so beautiful. big fav.
January 4th, 2017  
@30pics4jackiesdiamond - five shots, two different shutter speed, manual mode. thanks.
January 4th, 2017  
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Haha I see this is catching on! (I gave this to @homeschoolmom as a challenge a couple of weeks ago!) Well done :)
January 4th, 2017  
Brilliant, Vikki!
January 4th, 2017  
Intriguing image and technique
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January 4th, 2017  
This is so cool!
January 5th, 2017  
Interesting not sure about it but interesting .... are you outside looking up and the light painting is green? I'm baffled but it doesn't take much to baffle me.
January 5th, 2017  
Man, I had to look at this for a while to figure out what was going on here. Now I get it - very cool!
January 5th, 2017  
Far too complicated photographically for me but I very much appreciate the end result - well done!
January 5th, 2017  
This is very cool. I like it a lot.
January 6th, 2017  
Oh, my goodness! I love it! This is fabulous. Yep, @blueace I passed along this challenge. I thought it was very cool.....and different.
January 6th, 2017  
This is cool- of course a fav. I wonder if I'd be able to do it. When the weather is warmer of course!
January 10th, 2017  
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