Disneyland Lights

Here are some other abstract type, long exposure  pictures I played around with at Disneyland.  I’ve given them titles.

Dumbo’s Wings

Pulse of the Matterhorn

Monorail

Music of the Ride

For this picture I used a 5 second exposure with a 2nd curtain sync flash  so that the flash went off at the end of the shot.

Disneyland–Abstract Carousel

While everyone went on the Casey Jr. Circus Ride, I sat at a table and played around with long exposures and zoom blurs.

The regular shot

A two second shot with the camera sitting on the table and the carousel in motion

A two second shot with zoom blur

The same two second zoom blur shot, but I rotated the camera around the lens

The Zoom Blur

Here is another technique I tried out while out hunting.  It’s the Zoom Blur.  Basically, zooming in our out during an exposure that’s long enough to let you capture the motion.  I used a tripod for mine, but you can do it free hand or even use your own side to side, up and down, rotate, zoom in, zoom out, or any combination of movements during an exposure to make some cool pictures.  I liked the pictures I had seen of trees with this zoom blur because it makes them look… Aaaaaaah…  That’s a full chorus of angels Ah-ing.  I tried zooming in, zooming out,with the sun behind the tree, beside the tree, etc.  Here are my favorites from this experiment.

The more blurred or closer I got, the more abstract it became.

This last one made me think of a spider web since the bare branches just continued to multiply and weave together during the zoom blur.