I have a camera with a 5 frames per second burst mode. I am thinking I’ll set it up on my small tripod, point it at a cup of water. Devise some way of dropping droplets of water into it (I don’t have a pipette). Hold the shutter button down. Drop the drop. Look at the results.
That’s a fairly obvious thing to do, but I’d still like to try it.
The second is ‘light drawing’. Using a long shutter speed in a dark place, and drawing a picture with a small maglite (with the end bit taken off to produce a more concentrated, intense light.
Another obvious one.
Can you suggest some less obvious, but equally (or more) interesting things to try?
Not just for me, for any enthusiastic amateur obviously.
Long exposure star trails are fun; you can also ‘paint’ foreground objects with you maglight. It’s even better if you can put some colored cellophane over the light.
I’ve had a similar idea for my camcorder, attaching it to my small tripod and then seatbelting that into the passenger seat of my car. I guess I could do the same with my camera and a long exposure. Ironically I have a picture I took on holiday of this very effect…
Those are awesome! And so are yours Mighty_Girl. I remember seeing one where some guy put himself in several places in his dorm room. Looked quite freaky seeing what seemed like one photograph of six perfectly identical people.
