We were to either use the panning technique, to follow the subject, leaving the background blurred, or have a moving subject, with the background remaining the same.
For a lot of my pictures, I used the second technique, because I thought it looked better, in my opinion, than panning. (Not to mention the only thing I could find to pan were cars and people, neither of which are very interesting).
For the blurring pictures, I had my mom stand and light a sparkler, then wave it around however she wanted.
A lot of these pictures turned out really cool, especially the M.
This was the first picture I took, and it turned out really cool.
I really like how the little sparks that fell off the sparkler blurred together to make the streams of light.
For this one, I just told my mom to either make zig zag lines up and down, or left to right. She chose the first one.
I think this is really cool, because it turned out to look like an 'M'.
This was my favorite blur picture because it was pretty unexpected, and it looks a lot cooler than some of the other ones.
I really like this one.
I told my mom to make figure eights over and over again, because I wanted to see what would happen.
I love this picture as well because I set the shutter speed for a couple seconds longer, and by doing so, I allowed more of the sparks to fall and be recorded onto my film.
This is the same picture as above, but I printed it again, using a little bit longer printing time.
I like this one a bit more (but in a different way) than the one above. It's a lot darker, and it helps the sparkler's light stand out a lot more than the first one. But the first one is brighter and some of the sparks stand out a bit more than this one.
