Playing with Shutter Speeds

If you have time to kill, finding a subject like this spinning light (it a motorized led light that turns on a turntable) offers wonderful opportunities to create abstract photographs by altering the shutter speed. I shot these with my Sony RX 100 camera because I was traveling lightly. But the Sony has totally manual control and shoots Raw format, which gives me lots of room to edit in photoshop later on. The slow motion effect can be quite mesmerizing.

First image is shot at f4 and 1/100 second shutter speed.

Spinning lights f4 at 1/100 second

This shot is at f4 and 2 seconds shutter speed

Spinning lights at f4 and 2 seconds shutter speed

And finally this one at f4 and 5 seconds

Spinny lights at 5 seconds shutter speed