I hope you all had a wonderful holiday! Winter offers a lot of photographic opportunities. With snow falling, lights twinkling, and kids ripping into presents, its a photo wonderland out there. So one night at work I had my camera with me when the snow started falling. Lucky for me, I had my tripod as well so on my break I went out to take some slow shutter wintery night pictures. The trick with taking pictures slower than 1/60th of a second is to use a tripod and when possible a shutter release cable. It doesn't take much movement to show blur in a slow shutter speed picture. I did not have a shutter release cable with me. however, I cheated. I used the timer setting on my camera to allow me to press and release my shutter button without having to worry about causing any movement. Just press and wait. Happy shooting!
