Black holes are places in the Universe where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. Therefore, it obviously can't be photographed. Until now.
Last night I traveled through the space-time continuum (or it might have been to a county fair) to photograph the spinning lights of the illuminated rides, and one of the abstracts I took looked exactly like what I envision a black hole must look like -- if we could see it. This was taken with a one second exposure, hand held, and I zoomed the lens during the exposure and as the ride was spinning. My white balance was daylight and I used 100 ISO. In Photoshop I changed the color a little and added 'stars', which is merely a photo of glitter sprinkled on black velvet. I blended the two images together using the 'lighten' blend mode. I thought this turned out pretty cool.
Jim, I agree, this is very cool. Great idea!
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