an hour to take a picture?
 

hi,
i was at a very well lit parking lot in the mall, about 9:30pm or so, so its dark out.
i was waiting for all the cars that were passing by and getting different light streaks as they passed by, had the camera on the tripod and even set it to 2 second timer to definitely not have any shakes. zoomed in 10x (optical) and shot away., it was definitely good times trying to time all those cars passing by.
this is what i came up with. took me almost an hour or so, then the few select pictures were merged in to have a nice flow of colors in the background.
let me know what you think...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1069/...49321c87_o.jpg

The outcome of your wait is great.

I know you answered this before, but what camera are you using?

Fuji S5700, its a 7.1megapixel camera, along with a Vanguard tripod.

great picture :)

I like it...great job.

I love keeping the shutter open and taking shots at night! Especially if you've got a cool skyline as your backdrop!

Are you a professional photographer?
Your photos are amazing. :)

You spelled "Fotos". It's not Fotos. It's Photos. I would change that on your picture. :cheers:

I think he did that on purpose.

Beautiful shot, Djomlas!

I know what you mean about waiting for all the cars to move along, but sometimes they add character. With all the beautiful curves and shadows, Boxsters are made for night shots!
http://www.babblers.org/gallery/files/1/1/_night1.JPG


http://www.babblers.org/gallery/files/1/1/_night2.JPG

yeah thats done on purpose.
in serbian PH is just F. its the only language pretty much that has a letter for every sound, and every sound has a letter. pretty neat, so teheres no spelling bee, it just doesnt exist, its selfexplanitory, if you can hear it you can write it , and it you can write it you can say it, so no problems with misspronouciation.
nice catch tho ;)

So I guess that makes you a "Fotographer" instead of a Photographer. ;)

FOTOGRAFER, you still used ph hehe

Is English your second laguage? Just wondering.

Great pictures Bob,

the picture of the CalNeva brought back cherished memories. Thats where my wife & I got married almost 10 years ago :cheers:

yes it is.
i actually got here to the US 8 yrs ago, didnt speak ANY ENGLISH, and when i mean any, i really mean that, i knew how to say hello lol, that was it.
i had 6 yrs of german in school over there in serbia, but that really doesnt help you much with english haha.
but thx to the war there, now i can not only speak serbian, but croatian, and bosnian, and serbian. its pretty much serbian, just they call it something else since they wanted their own country, so they called the language something else

Ahhh! It all makes sence now. I'll be sure to remember this when I read your threads. Not bad for a self taught person. :D

Djolmas, zdrahvo, kahko steh? (that's all I know) :)

My wifes family (on her mother's side) is from Dubrovnik. We hope to visit her homeland someday... beautiful country!

That was taken at the 2004 West Coast Boxsterfest. I love CalNeva too. A lot of interesting history.

Here's another shot and if you look real close, you can see the ghosts of Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe admiring the Boxster coral. ;)

http://www.babblers.org/gallery/file...nightghost.JPG

Really nice shots Bob. The color is great and the night really brings it out.

Sweet DJ, nice work! Stop it though, a new camera's not in the budget :D Well I guess there are no worries in me buying one since they don't sell skill at the camera store.

Dubrovnik is a great place, and very romantic at night as well. you should definitely go check it out. its a beautiful country.

serbian, croatian and bosnian are all the same language really with some minor changes and different accents (ex. american english and british english)
I was born in serbia (beograd), but lived in dubrovnik for 6 yrs, i also lived in paris for 6 yrs and let me tell u, i think dubrovnik is prettier then paris, seriously its got a great history and is an amazing city. croatia is general is the nicest country you'll find in eastern europe so i suggest you visit if you have the chance :-)

btw some really awesome pix in this thread

yeah man like i said thx to the war our languages expanded, but hey...

btw, heres an even bette picture

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1357/...86b5e521_o.jpg

Dober Dan,

I was just in Beograd (serbia) last weekend with some friends. Drove my box down from Ljubljana (Slovenia, where I currently live). Took about 5hrs on the freeway.

I have never seen such attention paid to my car ever!!! People just hoarded around it. I ended up going back and parking at a secure carpark at my hotel just in case. Apparently a car gets stolen every 5 minutes in Belgrade and my insurance covers my car for every country in Europe except Serbia and Bosnia. Crazy!

Very interesting place. There is still lots of scars on buildings from the 'bombings in 99'

Great people, food and wine, very welcoming people.

Croatia is very very beautiful, especially the coast, but for driving Slovenia is awesome! Mountains, unpoliced highways (180-200k's) cruising speed on freeways, beatiful coast. You can cover the whole country on 1 tank of gas.

Nasvidenje, Caio.

thats awesome man, and yes cars get stolen there like nothing else.

i have a funny story about that, my dads friend bought a nice S class, and few days later he had a flat tire, so he didnt know how to take out the spare from the back and he got pissed and started beating on it and all over the trunk, leaving very bid dents all over the inside of the trunk. few days later his car gets stolen...sux. then, he says screw this i want another S class, so he calls around and one guy is like we have the exact model you are looking for, couse he said i want black on black and bla bla, so hes like fine ill take it. he buys it, and after paying and whateve his wife took it to the store, and when they were getting stuff out of the trunk he notices some dents, pulls the carpet..and its hic rcar LOL.
so yeah...stealing is like nothing.
but the city is still suffering, the whole country in general.
and as for croatia, well they didnt really get any dmage from the war, so its still a beautiful place.
glad you had fun man, do you have any pics you can PM me from the trip?