Painting with sparklers

Debated putting this in the kids section, but figured the shot was more about trying to get a long exposure of the sparklers than the boys so stuck them here.

Took a few handheld shots last night, trying to keep the camera as steady as I could on some long exposures - the shots of the boys are both 2s and that of my wife 6s - whilst the family mucked about with some sparklers. I really need a tripod, but hopefully Santa may bring me one!

I would love to know too. I've tried and failed miserably. Nice shots! Would be cool to only have motion blur on the arms.

Thanks 0ozma.

Had a play around in Photoshop trying to make something funky out of the sparklers as I figured they would be easy to pick up with the magic wand tool and came up with this:

I like the first,
too bad you couldn't have made them do a design or something

i did something like that with a surefire LED light, my wife enjoyed it.

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That's really nice that, well done!

Very, very nice!!!

Farva187 wrote in post #6702666
i did something like that with a surefire LED light, my wife enjoyed it.

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Thats very cool, could you explain how you did it for those of us learning please?

Shelton.

well i would be lieing if i told you "i knew what i did". i just set it to M mode and took several tries. i remember doing a 30" F4.5 ISO 100 custom WB. basicly you need a second person to help frame it up. but if your alone, you can focus on a certain point and then run out in front of it. still learning, i feel like child that just got a new box of crayons.

here is one i just did.

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