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Most cameras, even point and shoot ones, have a slow shutter speed or a night photography setting. This allows you to capture the ambient light in the scene or background while at the same time, firing the flash. The light from the flash freezes the main subject of the picture but the camera shutter stays open longer allowing more light to come in. In the case of this picture, I used the night setting and fired the flash, holding the camera at arms length and then quickly pulled the camera toward me causing the lights in the background to basically blur with the movement. As it moved, the bright lights burned or painted into the picture, creating the light-pen effect. Nothing in this image was digitally manipulated. And yes, I’m biting my lip.

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