“Merry” Cool Slow Shutters

I have taken lots of slow shutter pictures in my life. A slow shutter picture is when you set the camera’s shutter to open the light path for one second or more. It creates amazing streaks of light shooting through the pictures like lasers. If you want to see more of my slow shutter pictures, check out my “The Boats of Venice” post to see the streaks of light from the passing boats at night. I decided to use our Blue Noble Christmas Tree (with bird ornaments and ornaments that came from where we travelled, although you cannot see it here because the light does not let it in) to take these slow shutters. Christmas trees don’t move, so this probably wouldn’t have worked without this technique that I learned from our friend Michelle Knaier. This technique requires you to move the camera in a circle and/or move the zoom in and out while taking the picture. Here are a few of my pictures. I hope you like them.