Fun with long exposures

ISO: 200 Aperture: 22 Shutter Speed: 15 seconds

Diwali, is one of the festivals (in addition to Holi) where you have good opportunity to capture colorful pictures. 15 seconds exposure on a tripod adds magic to the captured picture. Interestingly the sparkle lasted for 15 seconds so, I did not have to fire a trailing flash.

This picture was taken based on some tips provided by Jeff in his book Exposure Photo Workshop. I was thankful to the Ritz Camera Store guy of Phesantlane Mall, NH for making me buy a Quantary tripod when I purchased my first Canon SLR (film) (Rebel G) in 1998. This camera never let me down with the pictures it took, though Canon seems to have goofed up in mid film rewind feature of this camera (When you load a roll, the camera opens up roll and forces that you take only 36 or 24 exposures. As it takes pictures backwards, the mid film rewind is totally useless, unless you know how to put back the unexposed film into the canister).