Ferris photo fun

A Ferris wheel at night can be a fun thing to photograph.

Bump up the ISO a little and you can get a shot at 1/160th second, enough to just about freeze the movement, but not very interesting:

Drop the speed to 1/4 second, and you get a sense of movement:

Let’s zoom out and try again:

Now slow the shutter to 1/6 second, getting more interesting:

1/8 second:

1.3 seconds:

2 seconds:

3.2 seconds:

And finally, with a 5 second exposure:

Ferris nirvana, rotating orgasm, the circle of light is complete. Send more drugs.

Panasonic GF1

Comments 🔗

2010-09-06 | Billy says

Please try 2.634 seconds, I suspect you will have a perfect darts board ….