Thanks to my friend Alex Cowley for this one. Here he's standing in an almost totally dark room with two handfuls of kid's sparklers. The sort you can buy from a newsagent.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D MkII
Aperture: f6.3
Shutter Speed: 36 secs
ISO: 100
The trick here, as I learned from Alex, is to rotate your arms in a circular motion very slowly which turning 360 degrees on the spot. It takes some doing but this is the sort of result you can get.
Troubleshooting:
- If the room is not dark enough, the ambient light int he room gets recorded and the shot becomes to light and the EFX is almost unnoticeable
- Keep the ISO at a minimum otherwise the noise becomes nasty
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