I shot two subjects for this challenge and both involved small multicolored decorative lights. In the second, I just twirled the lights infront of the camerage during 1-2 second exposure with the camera on timer. It was exhausting...and the results were OK.
In the second, this, I hung a wind spinner from the top of my studio-ette shooting area. The spinner was surrounded by the little lights front and back on each side. I set the spinner spinning and shot 1-15 second exposures and decided after a while that a more open aperture and lesser shutter speed work best to give the full flavor of the spinner spinning. I found that what work best was to not only the spinner spin but also to let sway a bit left to right. I got more detail of the spinner it self and a wonderful helix like line pattern in the middle that I did not get without the slight sway. So here you go. I know I probably should have gone KISS and with the twirled lights but I like this one better. Much easier to shoot as well with camera on tripod and manual remote. Shot two sessions of each subject last night and this morning. This is from the morning session.
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