How to Capture Your Own Jazzy Streaks of the City Lights: A Subtopic to the Trick Photography Book Review

One of the most common or rather classic examples of long exposures trick photography shots are the city and speeding traffic lights.

The bright, yet colorful speeding lights of city life always give us this jazzy, cozy feeling that rose above the seemingly mechanical way of living. I had myself fallen into this fascination once. I was into this notion before that the city and what it is made up are nothing but simple heaps of gray materials for its inhabitants to live in and metal caskets to transport them back and forth. No sooner have I changed my opinion on this when a friend showed me his city lights captures and I was into it since then.

The concept behind capturing city lights and speeding traffic lights is long exposure. This is where your camera’s shutter speed is set in manual or in a BULB mode. If you hold your finger down the shutter for about 10 seconds then you will get a 10-second amount of exposure and so with 30 seconds, 50 seconds and so on. This explains the phenomenon why you can’t see actual cars in this kind of images because with the time amount of exposure, the bodies of the cars that are in constant motion had not enough light to shine on them; where the light is responsible for the object’s visibility. All you have to remember when taking this trick photoshots with your camera firmly fastened to a tripod to make sure that the shutter will not move or be moved about while it is open for that long exposure. After which, you will do some photo-manipulation on a trick photography software.

For more of this “light painting” and long exposure trick photography ideas, you might want to check some trick pictures book available for download. 

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