Day 69: New York

Ah, time enough for creativity at last! Goodbye dreadful homework, and Hello Spring Break! This picture is part of the first set of many many pictures I hope to take this week. We're planning on a trip somewhere in Colorado this week. I won't tell you where, I'll let it be a surprise when I post the pictures. Anyway, I felt like coming up with something out of the ordinary today. So i took about 50 pictures of an old broken computer motherboard that turned out awesome, but those are for another day. This is a picture of New York City! In its condensed and portable form of course. But what makes it so awesome is the lighting. Can you guess how many lights I used? Better yet, can you guess which things I used for the lighting? Stop reading here and leave your comment.... I'll wait. ...ok, now that you have left a comment guessing how it was taken (which you have right?) I'll tell you... I used a flashlight. Just one flashlight. And a 17.1 second exposure. It was a lot of fun, and I took about 20 of 'em in total. I moved it around at different speeds from different directions and ended up with some pretty wacky looking pictures. It you look at it from a standard snapshot point of view it's really confusing. I like best how the light drops off toward the back of the picture, but yet the light on the statue is perfectly even. I can't wait to take lots more this coming week, and I'll have all the time I want now!