Went to the Lawrence County Fair tonight. Wasn’t planning on going initially, but we had some time to kill after dinner and we needed to get the Ape tired out, so it was a natural choice. Only had the G10 with me at the time, so no point in taking any standard fair shots as high ISO would have been required and the G10 sux for that. Instead, I decided to play around with rear-curtain slow-sync flash at low ISOs and the results were pretty interesting. Below is one of my favorites, and you can see the dramatic action this style of flash use adds to the photo — much better than the usual full-blast on-camera snapshots most people take.

Also played around with just taking pictures of the lights from various rides at really slow shutter speeds and got some nifty abstracts as a result. These are two of my favorites:

That’s about it for the evening. Going to go again this Saturday, but I’m going to have the D3 with then because it’s demolition derby night and I want shots of crashes galore, so I intend to be prepared!