Light of the Night Series - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Gallery.

A visitor asked me the following questions.  Thanks to the questions because it’s a good time for me to tell the scene behind the making of the “Light in the Night” series.  I hope that she doen’t mind that I share her questions with our readers.

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What inspired you to create the light in the night images?
Years ago, before I had my first camera, I read about long time exposure technique on a magazine, and I wanted to try but I haven’t got a camera yet. After I have got my first camera with manual setting available, I found that I can do more with that technique. Camera shake is my major problem until now because I don’t like to carry my bulky and heavy tripod everywhere. Instead of bluring it, why not I paint it.

Which photographers if any have inspired or influenced you?
I did come across some light trail photos from various photographers, but I don’t know / forgotten who they are. They took standard car trail photos on static tripod, but not as crazy as me where I intentionally moved the camera. Later I found that others has done similar work as mine, google it and you will find that.

What do you want your images to portray?
Random trails can mean nothing, although the exact outcome is unknown before the photos is taken, and the lines / shapes may be meaningless to those who doesn’t accept it, but when the randomness is captured and made permanent, it is the records of the combination of our mind and our surounding at a very short moment when the shutter release is pressed. It gives random effect because our mind and the surounding are totally random and have endless of possibility. If we have the ability to analyse the pictures, we can use it as a emotion detector or even fortune teller. It depends on how deep we can look into it. The conclusion is the pictures express our mind.

I’m not the first one who make this type of photo nor the best, but I strongly believe that the outcome is affected by our mind where it includes emotions, feeling, and many thing more. I suggest that you try your own with different emotion such as happy, angry, sad, calm etc. I’m sure you get different effects.

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Well, this is something crazy that I have done, but if you want to know more about the craziest thing I have done in photography, please read here.  Photography and Me - Part 2.

I also have a question to everyone, did you notice if the movements was too fast, it recorded dots instead of a line. Can someone explain?