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04-APR-2004 Smatty

Spinning Silly *by Smatty

A shot of a whirligig. It makes my dizzy just looking at the picture.

Minolta DiMAGE A1
1s f/11.0 at 8.5mm iso100 hide exif
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Date/Time04-Apr-2004 21:02:26
MakeMinolta
ModelDiMAGE A1
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length8.5 mm
Exposure Time1.00 sec
Aperturef/11
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias
White Balance
Metering Mode
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programmanual (1)
Focus Distance

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Smatty 08-Apr-2004 16:53
Hi John DU,

thank you for the comments. To tell you the truth, this one I spend very little time on. The Ferris wheel took me for ever. I shot it in many different angles (there were so many people and other rides around that I really had to hunt it down to get the "wheel only" shot).
This whirligig one was a walk by. I had two photos left on my CF card. Set up the tripod, f11 and 1.6 seconds on first 1 second on second exposure, done. This is the 1 sec exposure. I should have tried an even shorter time. Then you could have seen the flying heads ;) but I was out of memory :(
Anyhow, it was fun to use the challenge to take the cam to the fair. Otherwise I would not even have thought of it :)
Konica Minolta Users08-Apr-2004 12:19
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From John down under:
Hi Smatty,
This is one amazing shot. Did you try a few variations before settling on this one? Anyway, I can feel the excitement in this one. Very effective.
Cheers, John
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Donald Lynch05-Apr-2004 00:50
Nice, could take a couple of lessons from you on long exps. OOPS where did I put that brown paper bag
Konica Minolta Users04-Apr-2004 22:41
DSL.
And dito again on your first shot, more of what i was looking for, they dont arrive in Coventry until next Saturday which would be to late anyway.