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Book Excerpt
...what happens when you are not merely photographing the events as they occur at night, but instead focus on light that you yourself manipulate? There are lots of sources of light that make fairly bright images in the darkness, and some of them will create very cool effects by actively changing colors or pulsating while you use them...
I have a pole. Around the pole is wrapped a series of fairly standards Christmas lights. On the end of the pole is a Christmas star. I plugged them both into a dimmer switch, which go into a small portable power unit that fits easily in my pocket. Once I turn them on, I slowly move around in circles, raising the pole slightly as I turn, until I've created a full spiral up and then back down again. Notice the exposure time : it took me two minutes to do that whole stretch. You don't want to skimp on time and care when you do this work.
