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Old 11-25-2009, 04:28 PM
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Hello,
This is my first time posting on this forum.
Last night I decided I wanted to take some light trails from inside my car, while driving. I don't own a tripod, but I spotted a role of tape on my desk and decided to improvise.
So I taped my camera to the passenger seat headrest and went for a drive. It was pretty hard to operate the camera while driving, and I would probably recommend getting a remote, but doing it on the cheap seemed to work.

Here is the result:



I used a Tokina 12-24mm, set at 12mm to achieve this shot.
The settings I used were: 1.6s, f/4.0. iso100

Any feeback is welcome.

I want to go out and try this again, maybe even taping the camera to the outside of my car

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Edd

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Old 11-25-2009, 07:08 PM
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Very nice work. I like this so much that I am thinking of doing something similar to your work. Thanks for sharing this great image and the idea!
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Old 11-25-2009, 07:24 PM
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Very cool and effective. I'd be a little leery about taping the camera to the outside of the car though, you might be better advised in using one of these window clamps.
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Cheers for the comments guys.

I'll be interested to see the results you get vijaysanand.
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