Laaaaagggg....

You know for the most part, lag is a horrible, horrible thing. We go through every aspect of life we can to avoid it. In fact, in my case, if you get lag on your computer, then you just shut off the computer manually and then start it up again. Losing everything you just worked on to avoid having to deal with the massive slowness. Well... sometimes its not all bad. In fact, in the photo world, there are many people who make their artistic living off of lag. I mean, its not like any of the things I photograph make me money, but I will say they are certainly enjoyable and the lag in this case... not so bad.

The basic idea is to capture so much light that you get a stream. Its cool looking, especially on cars. More over, its pretty darn cool if you can slow it down just enough to get pictures of people so they look like they are traveling 'Back to the Future!'

Anyway, this happens from taking your nice night time settings, mine were set somewhere as low as 80 ISO and down to 1". This was all down on the TV settings, or Shutter Speed. Basically, it was stop at a red light, point out the window, click, go, end of picture. I believe that's why you can make out the other car, but still, very cool and if I can I will take a more experimental one now that I know what I'm doing. If I'm more successful I'll stick the 'better' one down here at the bottom of the page.

Now in oder to capture lag, it doesn't take a REAL genius, just a moron who's good enough to fake it. Most lag pictures like mine are more... landscape like. They want to capture something in the picture as well that is clear, like a building or street light, this gives the feeling that the light is moving... cool I guess seeing as after the picture was taken, nothing is actually moving, but then again in 3D movies where they give you those glasses, things aren't really coming up to your face to eat you either, but... thus is the life of optical illusion. Mine not so great as others, but its a great thing to learn. Gives some... ppaatttiiieeennnceeee.... CLICK!

Hopefully this helps you out, but if you don't like the whole car thing, try glow sticks on a string, they move fast AND its indoors where its nice and warm.

baggybunny