This a small collection of pics I took during the car ride from my home in Minnesota down south to Winona, MN to go camping on a beach. A two hour ride, we rode at night. I was playing with a setting on my camera that takes long exposures for night time shots and taking pictures of the CD player. I was either moving my hand around while holding the camera or spinning the camera itself during the exposures.


The CD player...


Exposed shot


First started spinning the camera on its side in this pic


Did it a bit faster with this shot. This one is called "Caesium Swirl"


Moving my hand around in circles while holding the camera


Same with this one, but faster circles


Spinning the camera itself in fast circles


Moving my hand in a figure-8. I titled this one "Argon Whisps".


Probably my favorite one, this picture is called "Electric Rave".


The last shot I took. I haven't named this pic, but "Laser Flares" or "Neon Petals" would be good names for it.



"Argon Whisps", "Electric Rave" and "Caesium Swirl" can be found on my page on Renderosity.com
http://renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?user_id=193086
As of right now only the picture "Electric Rave" has been uploaded. Renderosity only allows one upload a day for normal members and I haven't gotten around to putting up the other two.

Let me know what you guys think.

Hey Cyro!! Now this is pretty darn awesome! I think this is a great idea you have.

A few questions if you don't mind me asking, what kind of deck/cd player is that? Couldn't
really make it out but my closest guesses would be a JVC multi-color display. If its is
then that's a real nice display you put on and I wouldn't mind purchasing & using this
type of cd player. Also what kind of camera are using, I've always wanted to have someone
take a pic while I use my photons & glow sticks.

I really like the last one you posted, also the "Argon Whisps" look so cool it resembles
a lava flow in my opinion.
Anyways, many props to you for something new & refreshing on here, may you have many
more great ideas like this!

Trippy pics, I was trying to figure out how to do long exposures on my digital camera but I dont think it has it.

Oops, I forgot to include info about my camera.

Olympus Stylus Tough 6000.

zyle0c : I do have more pics like these, taken of photon lights and pen lasers and even a camera flash in the mirror. As far as the deck I'm not sure. I may be from JVC or Pioneer. We were using my dads car since it was the only available to me back home. My car was in Texas. I wasn't about to drive 16 hours to get to MN. His deck cycles through the colors. It must be a default thing.

that's some fun stuff.... I wish my camera took pictures like that but it's just your basic point and shoot type camera.

some trippy shots you've got going on

Hey thanks, wow that's a nice camera! Thanks for pointing that out to me, I will be
purchasing that camera now after this camera I have, Finepix xp10. It's good and i'm
looking forward to taking underwater photos of fishes & such.

If you go to my Renderosity page you can see an underwater shot I took of a hot tub jet stream. The pictures come out very definitive.

That is so awesome Cyro. I'll have to try that I believe my camera can do long exposure.

geeogree : If it is just a basic digital camera with a screen on the back you should actually be able to do long exposure, I can with mine and mine's a 4 or 5 year old cheapy. You might have to play with it for a while to find the setting though.

Dude, that is 50000000000000000 COOL

coolsy : Thank you. I'm glad you like it.

Cyro Xero : no prob. i used to do stuff like that

joebab : you're probably right.... but even then it wouldn't take a picture as cool as that one even if I tried to figure it out

Night pics are fun to take a lot of the time you don't even know what to expect from the pictures You should try inverting the pics some of them will look pretty neat that way.

Cool! I've never seen something like that!
I like a lot the 5th and 6th, they're the best¬_¬

So I guess I didn't even notice the last pic wasn't put up somehow. Edited my post and now it's showing. And now the first sentence that was after the pics that is supposed to be a caption makes sense.

Awesome pics man. Wish I had a camera to even take cool pictures like that.

Those are some really cool pics man. Hey you live in Minnesota, so do I!