light sticks at night reveals fractal imagery....cool

[pjflan7]

These images are of toys basically.....neon activated light tubes about 2 ft long and the diameter of a pencil. Kids would wildly spin, wave, flick them under the dark night sky. We went to an outdoor kids movie after dark at a local park and my wife asked why I was taking the camera since it would be dark but I knew that these light tubes would be out in full force. So I decided to shoot something other than flowers and bugs and at sometime other than at lunch. This is a very abstract set.....not like me at all.....if you were looking for a cute ladybug....umm sorry, they will make a return soon I am sure. The first and second shots you can see a kid whipping his light stick about and giving a cool image. The last two were taken when it was darker, hence you can't see anyone. I believe the shutter speed was set at 2 seconds or somewhere around that.

[FoG]

Great shots pj ..... sure you weren't waving a few yerself ?! lol lovely set as usual

[mstark70]

Those are so cool! Love the light trails and the cool effect.

[teedlepeep]

Great shots !!! I love doing stuff like that. I bet your kids had fun with this too

[shmelly]

These are very impressive shots pj. Does you good to shoot outside the box sometimes and these photos are good. It certainly has my artist mind thinking.

[PrimeTime]

Very cool effect patrick.

[Rezoanratul]

Very Cool Shots! Stunning!!!

[paulq]

Patrick those are cool shots. I like the 3rd the most. Looks very abstract and beautiful.

[Daoust]

Wow. I think those are amazing. Only two seconds on the shutter speed? Cool. The bokeh in the second and third pic is cool too!

[pjflan7]

Originally Posted by FoG

Great shots pj ..... sure you weren't waving a few yerself ?! lol lovely set as usual

nope.....just shooting other kids having all the fun

Originally Posted by Starry Night

Those look so cool. The third kind of looks like neon smoke a bit.

yeah, I can see that

Originally Posted by mstark70

Those are so cool! Love the light trails and the cool effect.

It was something different to do.

Originally Posted by teedlepeep

Great shots !!! I love doing stuff like that. I bet your kids had fun with this too

yes they did...it's great when everyone is having fun

Originally Posted by shmelly

These are very impressive shots pj. Does you good to shoot outside the box sometimes and these photos are good. It certainly has my artist mind thinking.

I bet it does.....each shot comes out with an unexpected result some so so and others that immediately hit you with a wow factor

Originally Posted by PrimeTime

Very cool effect patrick.

thanks

Originally Posted by Rezoanratul

Very Cool Shots! Stunning!!!

Thanks

Originally Posted by paulq

Patrick those are cool shots. I like the 3rd the most. Looks very abstract and beautiful.

Abstract is certainly the right way to describe it

Originally Posted by Daoust

Wow. I think those are amazing. Only two seconds on the shutter speed? Cool. The bokeh in the second and third pic is cool too!

The kids are whipping these things as fast as they will go and 2 secs was all that was needed. If they were slowly waving these thing about, then some experimentation would be in order