Light Trail Photography

My Photograph

My Photograph

Alex Wise Photograph

Alex Wise Photograph

I have always been interested in photography and last year bought a Canon digital SLR, which I have been experimenting with taking lots of different kinds of shots. Light trail photography has to be my favorite type of photography as you can create beautiful trails of lights using any type of light source.

I have recently come across a freelance photographer from Australia called Alex Wise. He has a wide range of photographs on his site, but his light trail photography stands out for me because of the beautiful composition of his shots. What I like about Alex's work is the way he uses different light sources and camera angles to capture his photographs. Most people tend to use busy streets and motorways to capture the light trails of the passing cars, however Alex describes on his website that he uses a torch under a bridge to capture a single line. The torch effect gives an abstract feel to his photographs and leads your eye directly to the light.

I wanted to have a go at experimenting with my own light trails so I went for the obvious shot and found myself a motorway bridge and began to experiment. As I had never done anything like this before I thought I would test it with motorway bridges until I began more advance at the techniques. With my photograph I made sure my shutter speed was open for 30 seconds to capture the light of as many cars as I could and used f5 for my aperture to make sure I kept the details of the whole photograph. Lastly I experimented with the ISO and used ISO-100 which makes the camera more sensitive to light and allow my photograph to come out clear. I have included my photographs on my blog and in the future will experiment with more advance photographs using different light sources, locations and angles.

See the rest of Alex Wise work here... www.alexwisephotography.net