I was on my way to a spot where I wanted to take some night shots. I thought that while I was on the way I would experiment with this. I set the tripod up with two legs on the back seat floor and one on the back seat itself. I Took several shots with the remote and the camera set to Manual. Each shot was unique because of the various streams of light. The difficulty was keeping from turning and reducing the vibrations from bumps in the road; which is almost impossible with our winding, cracked roads in Los Angeles. I actually got stuck in traffic at 12:30am (The clock on the dashboard says 1:17) due to construction and was never able to take the shots I was on my way to take.
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I am sooo appreciative of all of the positive comments. Thank you all very much for the feedback. I can tell you that the competition, encouragement, resources and help on this site has helped me to start to take better pictues.
how did you do that? It seems that the outside lights traveled quite a bit and therefore indicates a long exposure but your interior dash lights seem pretty clear to be in a moving vehicle for a long exposure. hmm, I'd be interested to see your notes on this one. Nice. shot.
The best of the time-lapse effect shots that I've seen so far (and I'm almost done with voting), mostly because the inside view of the car adds context and takes away the gimmicky feel. It tells a story, rather than just being a technical display of what moving light looks like. A nit: there's just enough detail on the radio that I want to make out what the text says, but it is just blurry enough that I can't. Overall, having the light there is a positive thing, as adding more black area would have unbalanced the shot, but I do wish that one aspect had been slightly sharper. Oddly, I don't have this need for clarity on the speedometer, possibly because it fits well just as geometric shapes, or doesn't really have text to read.
Now this is VERY cool. Still not a 10 from me though as I feel there is something missing but I can´t really put my finger on it. Perhaps a longer shutter time and more lights on the outside, especially directly left of the rearviewmirror. Anyway, like this shot a lot, gave it an 9 and great job, very creative, makes me want to try something like this myself.
IMHO this is the best, most creative and orginal shot in the challenge! when voting over u will have to email and let me know how this was done. great job and the best of luck....10
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