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Permalink Reply by Kacie Knight on May 30, 2011 at 11:24am

Ohh, thanks for asking this. I've been wondering myself!

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Permalink Reply by Digitalis* on May 30, 2011 at 11:52am

wellllll, haha I am a photography major so I'll try to answer this for you. There are a few different things you can do.

It is basically all about your shutter speed!

 

1. If you want the effect of seeing the hooper andddd getting the light trails:

Try setting your point and shoot to a night shot setting. Or any setting you can figure out that allows for flash with a slow shutter speed. You'll have to play with the shutter speed but probably a shutter speed of 1/8 and under will work.

 

2. If you want to see just the trails:

This is a quite a bit easier to accomplish. Set your camera to Tv if possible or any setting that will allow you to control your shutter speed and just slow it down considerably. Make sure your camera is on a tripod or sitting stable on something for this.

 

*this might be confusing so let me know if you have any questions!

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Permalink Reply by Digitalis* on May 30, 2011 at 11:56am

 

This is an example of option #1.

 

The quick flash freezes the motion of the hooper and the slow shutter speed catches the motion of the light.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is an example of option #2. Just the light trails!

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Permalink Reply by copesetic chinacat ;) on May 30, 2011 at 2:15pm

thank youu! this helps a lot!

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Permalink Reply by Riah on May 30, 2011 at 12:39pm

My camera has a fireworks setting and I find that works well.

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Permalink Reply by Kitty Cat on May 31, 2011 at 1:37pm

Thanks so much! Took some last night that turned out much better!

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