Alien Experiment

Long exposures at night I love. Went to a local lookout recently to play around with the traffic flow. After 15 minutes and a few good results later, I was getting bored. Boredom lead to playing and this is the result…all in camera, no post processing on this at all.

So how…Nikon D700 with fixed 105mm lens, 100 ISO, 30 second exposure @ f/18 and all on a tripod using manual focus. For the last 10 seconds of the shot, I rotated the focus ring back and forward from one extreme to the other slowly and with care to avoid any motion blur…this is what showed up. If you take a close look you can see the shape of the aperture blades in the light beams, at least I think that’s what it is anyway.

I think I will call it the rock-a-bye-baby technique!

Now showing in a calendar here…