Brake light blur?

[Brocko]

Its a bit hard to describe, but how do i get to take photos of the light trails of a busy motorway/road, where the car cannot be seen, but the lights can. (if that makes any sence)

i presume it means playing with the shutter speed? but as i only have a 6 megapixel sony dsc-w30 at the moment i dont think i can change shutter speed, are there any other ways to achive this effect?

Cheers

Brocko

[John-R-]

Yup you need to change your shutter speed.
You should be able to go to a manual settings option on you camera and change it from there, would probably be an idea to turn off the flash also.

John

[Alan W]

You would need to set the shutter speed to a few seconds at least and mount the camera on a tripod to limit movement also.

Alan W

[DeWalt Dave]

I did a project on this for my A level Photography - slow the shutter speed right up and use a higher F stop. Using a tripod is a must. Its similar to "Painting with light" which is great fun! If you want the car to be captured with blury lights (eg not just a road with red/white lights) you need to use a manual flash gun to light up the scene at the end of the exposure.

Have fun !

[Teqnique]

i take it you want something like this ?

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/orionmojo/66.jpg

[Brazo]

^^Wow!!

Yes I think thats what he means!!

[MX5Argie]

:thumb: Nice Picture!:thumb:

[Teqnique]

not my photo just took it from the best photo post in this section...

Patrice

[parish]

:thumb: Nice Picture!:thumb:
I just hope that it is a dual carriageway :eek: :eek:

[Brocko]

i take it you want something like this ?

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/orionmojo/66.jpg

Yeah, thats pretty much what i want, but i cant change the shutter speed on my camera :( only adjust the exposure. ah well, ill have to have a play with it later (and maybe the camera:lol: ).

[parish]

Yeah, thats pretty much what i want, but i cant change the shutter speed on my camera :( only adjust the exposure. ah well, ill have to have a play with it later (and maybe the camera:lol: ).
Are you sure? Does it not have a manual setting? Even on my 4 year old Canon I can select manual and change shutter speed to as slow as 15 seconds.

[S500]

You can have fun with little cars too!

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/7401/Mack.jpg

[S-X-I]

Heres my attempt

http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=6780&page=27

(at the bottom of the page)

[S500]

You can have fun with little cars too!

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/7401/Mack.jpg

Little, very fast and a bugger to capture a shot

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/7401/09696883.jpg