"I see those carny lights!"
Carnival Lights - Ferris Wheels
Experimental digital photography

-- experimental digital photography at a fall carnival --

by Rick Doble

Experiments in low-light, slow shutter speed, digital photography with subject and/or camera movement.

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Digital photographs taken with a Casio QV-100 camera.

These pictures were a complete surprise to me. I was trying to get colorful blurry pictures when the ferris wheel turned at night. I had gotten this effect on film in the past. However, digital material behaved differently. (Film is really analogue.) At times each fluorescent light made a distinct mark on the film instead of a smear.

I invite comments and would like to see any more experiments by other photographers in this kind of blurred motion digital photography.

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