Friday night's Dance

We had two dances this year, both by the same DJ. Each dance was a rave style. This style is quite difficult to photograph using "standard" point 'n shoot methods. Hence, I chose to experiment a bit with the manual mode of the camera and longer exposure times. This yielded some very interesting pictures. Most of these are to be taken as something more abstract then the usual "instant in time" that standard photography captures.I hope you enjoy looking at these as much as I enjoyed creating them.
- Jeremy "Tigger" Cook, Anizona Historian

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1/4 second exposure, flash fired. Possibly the best picture of the lot, if you want a standard picture. The green light streaks are solid green LED ring lights.
A longer 1 second exposure, no flash. This one is a runner up.
A 6 second exposure, with the LED lights set to blink. The dancer is blurred out due to her motion, but that adds to the picture, I think.
Another 6 second exposure, after more people showed up and started getting into it. You can't see the dancers, all you can see if this wonderous light trail hanging in the air...
4 second exposure. This picture I like just for the mixture of colors, and the fire-like quality of the open door in the background.
another 4 second exposure. A study in purple.
4 second exposure. By far, the Solid green LED made for the best picture. Most of the others were using glowsticks and glow bracelets as light sources.
4 second exposure. Multiple lightsticks helds in the hands provided interesting effects.
This picture was taken at 1/2 second, flash fired, with the camera being held near the ceiling on my trusty monopod. Not a terrible picture, really.
3 second exposure. I'm not sure what was going on here. People playing with light, yes.
3 second exposure. the orange-yellow looks like people are playing with fire. ::evil cackle::
Holding the moinopod steady in the air for 3 second is VERY hard... but it yielded a decent shot.
Quick time video of Anthony doing his White Boy Dance...

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