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This is my second attempt at shooting the monorail that goes over Pyrmont Bridge in Darling Harbour Sydney.
My goal was basically to get some cool looking light trails from the monorail in low light with a cityscape type background.

Apparently the monorail is going to be torn down in the near future so I thought it might be a good idea to get a few shots before that happened as well.


Darling Harbour Monorail by stevejwphoto, on Flickr


Green Machine by stevejwphoto, on Flickr


Blur-o-rama! by stevejwphoto, on Flickr


Green Machine II by stevejwphoto, on Flickr


Monorail Escapade #6 by stevejwphoto, on Flickr

Great set, I personally like the last two.

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Im assuming the long exposure denerated the "stars" around the lights. Is that right?

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Leo's Flickr Page

see below about the star question

Do you have a Pinterest account? Can we follow you there? Or maybe a Facebook page? These are absolutely amazing shots!

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stunning.

how do you make the lights appear as stars ?

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Got some of the gear but really still no idea...

One way is to use a Star filter with lines etched into it. They come in different types like 4, 6, 8 pt stars.

Another way is to stop the lens aperture down to a small hole. The number of blades dictates how many points per star.

Blades/Points
5/10
6/6
7/14
8/8
9/18

Very nice shots! I really like the third one

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very cool..

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Canon 550D, Canon EFS 17-85 IS USM, Canon EF 75-300 IS USM, Canon EFS 10-22mm USM, Canon EF35mm F2.

Got some of the gear but really still no idea...

Thanks for the replies and kind words everyone.

A small aperture will give you that star effect on the street lights and such, it's just the aperture blades.

Cheers
Steve