Christmas Time Lights

I love Christmas time!  It's not just the family time, parties, gifts and genuine Christmas fun.  It's the lights and decorations.  Be sure to take your tripod and your patients.  This is a great time to practice your long exposures and your HDR techniques.

You need to take long exposures with your camera to get the detail your human eye can see.  However your camera only captures a single frame making all the lights blur.  Don't be afraid to play with the light.  This is a single 23second f/29 exposure.  Be sure to use a setting of f/9 or higher to help get your depth of field.

This is a six frame HDR photograph.

Merry Christmas!