You may or may not be able to see, but this nightscape is full of FIREFLIES! (Or whatever you call them. I grew up calling ‘em “lightning bugs” but slipped into calling them “fireflies” at some point. Either term is acceptable around here.)
Some of those fireflies might be the same ones, as this photo is actually a composite (of like 10 of the FOUR THOUSAND PHOTOS–okay, more like 40– that I took. I’ve been trying to photograph these guys for a few days now, but my camera’s longest shutter speed is 4 seconds [and highest decent ISO is 200], which… just wasn’t enough. Google confirmed that this is a supremely tricky task that’s virtually impossible with a shutter less than 60 seconds. So I gave up and cheated).
June 30, 2008 at 3:12 pm
This is pretty good… I was actually sitting on my car last night watching my kids catch lightning bugs and wondered to myself, “How the hell can I capture this with my camera…”