This one was shot in a pitch-dark room with an exposure time of 25s. I used a pen torch to illuminate only those things that I wanted the camera to see. The glowing 5s are caused by waving the torch to trace a 5 in the air.

I wouldn’t rate the picture very high on originality. I got this idea first from the recent issue of Time magazine, where they had published the picture of a scientist tracing an Omega trough air with a torchlight. Then I saw an entry by Dylon, that uses a similar technique, in this week’s photofriday noteworthy and decided to give it a shot (pun unintentional) myself.

Interesting photo!

By  Anonymous, at 9.10.05  

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I think it looks great mate :) Thanks for the link!

- Dylan http://deography.com

By  Anonymous, at 9.10.05  

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It scared me! :-/

By  G Shrivastava, at 10.10.05  

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Nice! And I'd concur with Avis: that expression is priceless :)

Oh and this (with apologies to SB - I just couldn't resist.):
http://www.livejournal.com/users/smilebringer/86275.html

;-)

By  sajith, at 10.10.05  

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Excellent Picture !!!

By  Anonymous, at 10.10.05  

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Ah! I finally get what this is supposed to be! You've replaced Amitabh in RGV's Sholay!

"Paanch Paanch kos door jab koi bachcha rota hai, to uski maa use meri photo dikhaati hai"

By  Ink Spill, at 10.10.05  

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it reminds me of frankenstein. :-)

great shot though. i had seen one like this long time back, of James Gosling drawing a Java cup.

By  Richard Hsu, at 10.10.05  

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splendid! one of your best snaps

By  Exotic Gringo, at 11.10.05  

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Deepak,
Is that really your picture? Are you using fiberoptics cable or what? Interesting picture-- Vijay

By  Anonymous, at 11.10.05  

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Thanks Tetsu!

Thanks Dylan! Thanks for dropping by!

Thanks Avis! That expression is called I_hope_this_one_turns_out_fine.

It took me several clicks to get it right. I would either botch the "five" or not light my face correctly or overexpose my hand.. you get the drift :)

Sorry Geets! Had no intentions of scaring people on this blog ;-)

Hey Sajith, even I am waiting for the elusive "SB" shot now!

Thanks Anonymous!

Thanks Inky! Never knew that this picture would exercise such a hypnotic/therapeutic influence on insomniac kids :-)

Thanks Richard! Frankenstein!! You are so kind in your praises ;-)

Thanks Kaushal!

Yes Vijay - the pic is every bit mine. Nope nothing as sophisticated as fiber-optics - just a plane old torchlight being waved in the air here.

By  Deepak, at 11.10.05  

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Great use of fibre optic and that too to take a good pic....
But man, don't preserve, ur kids will get frightened.

Don't show it to ur PM, why?

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By  Pankaj, at 16.10.05  

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cool, way cool

By  Kaavya, at 4.11.05  

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Way too cool!!!!

By  Unknown, at 6.11.05  

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